Source: Religion News Service
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Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, right, shakes hands with Pope Tawadros II, the 118th pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria and patriarch of the See of St. Mark Cathedral, to offer condolences for the victims of the terrorist incidents of the Palm Sunday bombings in Tanta and Alexandria, in the Abassiya Cathedral in Cairo, on April 13, 2017. Photo courtesy of The Egyptian Presidency/Handout via Reuters
Now Copts are expected to repay him with support in the country’s presidential election later this month.
“Pastors are telling congregants that it’s an imperative to vote and that staying at home in these elections is a sin,” said Ishak Ibrahim, a minority affairs researcher at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a group that monitors attacks and discrimination against the Coptic Christian community.
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