Egyptian priest: pandemic “is bringing Christians and Muslims closer”
In Egypt, the coronavirus "is bringing Christians and Muslim closer together", said Fr Rafic Greiche, head of the media committee of the Council of Churches of Egypt.
The pandemic is making people rediscover the value of closeness and solidarity.
As Holy Week is set to start in Egypt on the 13th of April, seven days after the Latin Church, people of various religious confessions “are boosting social ties and establishing new connections,”Asia News quoted Fr Rafic
When the first cases of the virus were reported, Egyptian authorities imposed a curfew as well as ordered all places of worship closed. As he explained:
“Young Christians and Muslims are delivering medicine to the elderly, and visiting the homes of needy families to bring help,”
Churches may be empty, but at a spiritual level, “my eyes continue to see people sitting in their places, as usual. Some worshippers come, alone, and ask to pray.”
Muslim places of worship are also closed, but five times a day the muezzins call the faithful to pray from minarets. TV channels broadcast the ritual to enable people to pray at home.
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