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    Tawadros II installed as Coptic pope in Egypt

    November 18, 2012 - 14:33 AMT


    PanARMENIAN.Net - The Coptic Orthodox church staged a ceremony rich in
    ritual on Sunday, Nov 18, to install its pope, Tawadros II, who
    Christians hope will guide them through the new, Islamist-led Egypt,
    according to Reuters.
    The 60-year-old pope was picked on November 4 and the ceremony on
    Sunday filled with incense, elaborate robes and chanting marked his
    formal ascendance as the 118th leader of the church.
    Coptic Christians, whose church predates the arrival of Islam in
    Egypt, make up a tenth of Egypt's 83 million people.
    Many fear their community, the biggest Christian group in the Middle
    East which has long complained of discrimination, will be squeezed to
    the sidelines of society under Islamists now ruling the
    Muslim-majority nation.
    President Mohamed Mursi, propelled to power by the Muslim Brotherhood,
    did not attend the ceremony in the cathedral in Cairo's Abbasiya
    district to the dismay of some Christians who said it undermined his
    claim to be a leader for all Egyptians.
    But he sent his prime minister, Hisham Kandil. Other officials and
    dignitaries also attended.
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    From: A. Papazian
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