{"id":55582,"date":"2018-03-06T11:56:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T09:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/site\/?p=55582"},"modified":"2018-03-06T11:56:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T09:56:23","slug":"%d9%82%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%a8%d8%a7-%d9%8a%d8%b3%d8%aa%d9%82%d8%a8%d9%84-%d9%88%d9%84%d9%89-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d9%87%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b3%d8%b9%d9%88%d8%af%d9%89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/%d9%82%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%a8%d8%a7-%d9%8a%d8%b3%d8%aa%d9%82%d8%a8%d9%84-%d9%88%d9%84%d9%89-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d9%87%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b3%d8%b9%d9%88%d8%af%d9%89\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Crown Prince visits St. Mark Cathedral and meets HH Pope Tawadros II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">HH Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patrirch of the see of St. Mark, received, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense,\u00a0at Saint Mark&#8217;s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo\u2019s Abbasiya neighborhood.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">This marks the first visit of its kind by a senior Saudi official to the seat of the Coptic Orthodox patriarchate. Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz had previously met with Pope Tawadros during a visit to Cairo in 2016.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">Pope Tawadros and Prince Mohammed tackled bilateral ties between Saudi Arabia and Egypt, stressing the role of different religions and cultures in bolstering tolerance and shunning violence, extremism and terrorism.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">Prince Mohammed hailed the role of Copts at their non violence in ensuring Egypt\u2019s stability and in supporting Arab and Muslim causes.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">For his part, Pope Tawadros welcomed the Saudi Crown Prince \u201cin his second home in Egypt.\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">He also praised Saudi Arabia for the development it is undergoing, saying that it will \u201chelp us defeat violence and terrorism that has plagued our region.\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">His Holiness\u00a0revealed that Prince Mohammed had invited him to pay a visit to the Kingdom.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">The Saudi royal\u2019s visit to the Coptic cathedral was widely welcomed among Coptic and political circles in Egypt.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">Father Boulos Halim, official spokesman of the church, said: \u201cThe meeting demonstrates the values of tolerance and love that bind Saudi Arabia and Egypt.\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">He highlighted its significance in the confrontation against extremism in the region.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HH Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patrirch of the see of St. Mark, received, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense,\u00a0at Saint Mark&#8217;s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo\u2019s Abbasiya neighborhood.This marks the first visit of its kind by a senior Saudi official to the seat of the Coptic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":55583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,74],"tags":[4089,3749,10935,7090,4743,10928,10930,2114,1045,10934,5879,10933,10929,134,839,10927,1947,738,10932,4901,10931],"class_list":["post-55582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-74","tag-hh-pope-tawadros-ii","tag-meets","tag-saudi-crown-prince","tag-st-mark-cathedral","tag-visits","tag-10928","tag-10930","tag-2114","tag-1045","tag-10934","tag-5879","tag-10933","tag-10929","tag-134","tag-839","tag-10927","tag-1947","tag-738","tag-10932","tag-4901","tag-10931"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55582"}],"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=55582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55584,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55582\/revisions\/55584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}