Posted on 11/27/2015 6:23:54 AM PST by marshmallow
CAIRO (AP) - Egypt's state MENA news agency says the leader of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church has traveled to Israel in the first visit of its kind in decades.
Pope Tawadros II's Thursday trip to Jerusalem came despite a ban on pilgrimages to Israel issued by his predecessor, the late Shenouda III, who opposed the normalization of ties between the two countries.
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I know Pope Shenouda was more anti-Israel than the moslems (Middle Eastern chrstians are among the most anti-Jewish people on earth). But to ban pilgrimages to the Holy Land because it is controlled by Jews? That's just sick!
I'm a little apprehensive about this. Tawadros is probably going to make demands, possibly that Jews stay off the Temple Mount (a rebuilt Temple is historical chrstianity's worst nightmare). And the Israeli government, being secular, will of course bend over backwards.
Of course, maybe it's just "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."
The Copts are not Eastern Orthodox.
You missed the point entirely.
Never mind.
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The reason of the visit is a large motley collection of Israelis joined forces to rescue Copts from the mudslime brotherhood.
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