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04-30-2017, 08:42 AM
http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/uEvT6.OJoF4uzhtdRiB3UA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/02e76d927643b023e0925ac7c503f6d935e0fbaa.jpg (https://www.yahoo.com/news/pope-francis-heads-egypt-pilgrim-peace-082904286.html)Pope Francis pleaded for peace in a visit to Egypt on Friday as he attended a service in solidarity with the embattled Coptic minority at a church bombed by the Islamic State group. Last December, the Saint Peter and Saint Paul church was itself targeted by a suicide bomber in an attack that killed 29 people. Francis had earlier met President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand imam of the Al-Azhar institution, one of Muslim world's leading authorities, to push for dialogue between the two faiths.



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