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Egypt: Islam has the Status of a State religion (2010) Where God Weeps - episode #235 Title: Egypt: Islam has the Status of a State religion Guest: Cardinal-Patriarch Antonius Naguib Host: Mark Riedemann …More
Egypt: Islam has the Status of a State religion (2010)

Where God Weeps - episode #235
Title: Egypt: Islam has the Status of a State religion
Guest: Cardinal-Patriarch Antonius Naguib
Host: Mark Riedemann

Duration: 23’48”
Year: 2010

Copyright: CRTN

Egypt is a country with the largest and oldest Christian community in the Middle East. The Christian community is divided into several groups: Coptic Orthodox, Coptic Catholics, and Coptic Evangelicals. Egypt's Catholic Copts number about 250,000, a small minority in a country of 74 million inhabitants, 94% of whom are Muslim. The Coptic patriarch of Alexandria, Patriarch Antonios Naguib is the head of the Catholic Copts. Mark Riedemann interviews the recently appointed Cardinal, the Patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church his Beatitude Antonius Naguib about the situation of Christians in Egypt (please note the interview was conducted before the extraordinary political events recently).