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CAIRO – Joining hands against the regime of Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian Muslim and Christian protestors shared funeral prayers in Tahrir square on Sunday, February 6, for the victims of brutal security crackdowns on demonstrations.
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By one o’clock PM (CLT), Christians started their Sunday Mass in Cairo's Tahrir Square as Muslim protesters formed a ring around them to protect them during the service.
Chanting “one hand,” they appeared holding the Holy Quran and the Cross as Christians and Muslims crossed their hands.
Since the eruption of the protests, no single attack was reported on any church in Egypt, though all police forces withdrew from their locations in front of churches.
Last Friday, more than a million Muslims gathered for Friday Prayer in Tahrir Square in a day dubbed as the “Friday of Departure.”
Photos taken during the prayers showed Christians forming a ring around their fellow Muslims to protect them during prayers.
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Full story is here:
http://www.onislam.net/english/news/...in-tahrir.html
For those of you that speak German, you can find another article from a different - and perhaps more credible - source here:
http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/aegypten584.html
Have not seen it picked up in any major English language news outlet yet unfortunately. Nice story, I think. One can only hope it lasts for a while.
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