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Joined: 05 Jul 2005
Location: Jeju
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 Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 10:00 pm Post subject: Christian TV in Egypt |
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| Aghapy TV, the first completely Christian, Egyptian-run television channel, is hitting the airwaves... |
Great idea!!
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| But the effort comes amid growing tensions between Christians and Muslims. Just weeks before Aghapy's debut, sectarian riots broke out in Alexandria, killing three people. Parliamentary elections, which end Thursday, are giving surprise victories to the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood. |
Maybe not the best timing?
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| Aghapy TV's executive director, Father Bishoy Al-Antony, says the channel's goal is to foster better relations between Copts, who make up about 10 percent of Egypt's population, and the Muslim majority. "Our aim is to get Christians and Muslims closer together," he says. "God is love, and we will show them our God and our love." |
Then again...great timing!!
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| "I am against Christians having one TV station and Muslims having another," says democracy activist Negad Al-Borai. "This is part of the problem, not the solution." |
D'oh!
Read the full article here. It gives quite a bit of background info on the relationship of the Coptics to the Muslims in Egypt. Being rather uninformed on the whole issue, I found it quite interesting. |
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