What Egypts Catholic bishops said to Pope Francis

Coptic Catholic bishops invited Pope Francis to visit Egypt during their ad limina visit where they also gave a report on the state of the Church in their country. "Each of us was invited to freely speak about the situation in his diocese,” Bishop Emmanuel Bishay of Luxor said.



Pope Francis meets with the bishops of the Coptic Catholic Church at the Vatican, February 6, 2017. (Credit: L'Osservatore Romano.)

Andrea Gagliarducci
February 14, 2017

ROME - A special invitation to visit Egypt was delivered to Pope Francis by Coptic Catholic bishops during their ad limina visit on February 6, during which they also gave a report on the state of the Church in their country.

“It was a formal invitation put in written form, that followed other invitations to Egypt,” Bishop Emmanuel Bishay of Luxor told CNA.

The pope has also received an invitation to visit Egypt from the country’s president and from the Grand Imam of al Azhar, Ahmed el-Tayeb, who occupies a prestigious place in the Sunni Muslim world.

It is widely speculated that the pope might go to South Sudan in November. There is a possibility he could use the occasion for a longer trip, with a stop in Egypt.

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