2014年1月17日 星期五

Egypt's Coptic Church Makes Rare Foray Into Politics

CAIRO—Behind the almost certain passage of Egypt’s draft constitution in a national referendum is an unlikely new political actor: the country’s Coptic Orthodox Church.
During the campaign over the new military-backed charter, the minority religion’s church took a rare posture of open advocacy for it, with Coptic priests preaching the document’s virtues to churchgoers. And Pope Tawadros II, the church’s newly elected patriarch, broke…

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