{"id":100283,"date":"2017-04-29T02:37:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T06:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=100283"},"modified":"2017-04-29T02:37:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T06:37:15","slug":"pope-francis-to-celebrate-mass-in-cairo-on-2nd-day-of-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/29\/pope-francis-to-celebrate-mass-in-cairo-on-2nd-day-of-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis to celebrate Mass in Cairo on 2nd day of trip"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pope Francis will celebrate Mass for Egypt’s tiny Catholic community and meet with its priests and seminarians before returning to Rome. (Photo: Martin Schulz\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

CAIRO \u2014 Pope Francis will celebrate Mass for Egypt’s tiny Catholic community and meet with its priests and seminarians before returning to Rome.<\/p>\n

Local media reports say at least 25,000 are expected at Saturday’s Mass in Cairo, which comes on the second day of Francis’ two-day trip to the Arab world’s most populous country<\/p>\n

Francis on Friday urged Egypt’s Muslim leaders teach a rejection of violence in God’s name during the delicate visit and he strongly backed its uncompromising crackdown on political Islam and militancy.<\/p>\n

His main event was a landmark visit to Cairo’s Al-Azhar, the revered, 1,000-year-old seat of Sunni Islam learning that trains clerics and scholars from around the world. He also met with President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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