{"id":46363,"date":"2017-05-01T12:57:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T10:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/site\/?p=46363"},"modified":"2017-05-01T12:57:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T10:57:01","slug":"%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%83%d8%a7%d8%ab%d9%88%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%83%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d9%86%d8%b4%d9%83%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b1%d8%a6%d9%8a%d8%b3-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%b1%d9%8a%d9%8a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%83%d8%a7%d8%ab%d9%88%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%83%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d9%86%d8%b4%d9%83%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b1%d8%a6%d9%8a%d8%b3-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%b1%d9%8a%d9%8a\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic church:We thank the President and Egyptians for welcoming the Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Catholic Church in Egypt issued a statement by\u00a0Father Hany Bakhoum, Undersecretary of the Coptic Catholic Patriarchate, on the visit of Pope Francis to Egypt.<\/span><\/h2>\n

“His Beatitude Anba\u00a0Ibrahim Ishaq, Patriarch of Alexandria for Catholic Copts and Chairman of the Council of Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops in Egypt and the Coordinating Committee for the Visit of His Holiness Pope Francis to\u00a0Egypt, thank on behalf of catholic in Egypt the great people of Egypt for the extraordinary visit of His Holiness Pope Francis\u00a0and warm reception of Egyptians in all sects, which was translated in the warm welcome from President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and all political leaders.<\/span><\/h2>\n

President Sisi and Pope Francis expressed a sincere desire to fight extremist ideology, renounce wars, bring peace to the world and the importance of Egypt’s role in maintaining stability in the Middle East.<\/span><\/h2>\n

His meeting with Dr. Ahmed al-Tayeb, Sheikh of Al-Azhar, showed a sincere desire from\u00a0the Pope and the Imam to achieve peace in all corners of the world to replace terrorism and destruction and make religious dialogue the\u00a0way to achieve acquaintance and love among people on\u00a0earth with different ideologies and beliefs.<\/span><\/h2>\n

His meeting with his brother, Pope Twardos II, Pope of Alexandria and the Patriarch of the see\u00a0of St. Mark, was a\u00a0culmination of the spirit of love and cooperation between the Catholic and Coptic Orthodox Churches to reach the nominal goal of “unity of the Churches”.<\/span><\/h2>\n

The Pope’s visit to the homeland of peace Egypt is a historic visit, as Pope Francis said. He came to Egypt to follow the lines of the Holy Family and many prophets, considering his visit to this blessed land as a holy pilgrimage.<\/span><\/h2>\n

Father Hany Bakhoum said in his statement: “The Pope has expressed to us more than once the happiness of warm reception and good organization, by\u00a0the president office,\u00a0armed forces, Police\u00a0and the Ministry of Tourism and Education. The Pope alternate with\u00a0Egyptian, feelings of love and brotherhood and was hoping if the visit lasted for days in\u00a0Egypt the land of peace .. Mother of the world, which carried the banner of love and human civilization throughout its history.<\/span><\/h2>\n

We wish to reap the fruits of this visit, which has showed that security is firmly established in our beloved land and to be the beginning of glories of our homeland and the establishment of peace throughout the world.<\/span><\/h2>\n

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The Catholic Church in Egypt issued a statement by\u00a0Father Hany Bakhoum, Undersecretary of the Coptic Catholic Patriarchate, on the visit of Pope Francis to Egypt. “His Beatitude Anba\u00a0Ibrahim Ishaq, Patriarch of Alexandria for Catholic Copts and Chairman of the Council of Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops in Egypt and the Coordinating Committee for the Visit of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":46364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,74],"tags":[3808,4755,3704,4778,8356,8357,3546,1390,1369,1119,1854,8355,1302],"class_list":["post-46363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-74","tag-catholic-church","tag-egyptians","tag-pope","tag-president","tag-thank","tag-welcoming","tag-3546","tag-1390","tag-1369","tag-1119","tag-1854","tag-8355","tag-1302"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46365,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46363\/revisions\/46365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}