A Coptic bishop called on the authorities to expedite procedures to issue a license for a "controversial church" in Ain Shams. "More than 2,000 Coptic families in Ain Shams are waiting for a license for the church to hold their prayers after a pledge by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf to open the closed churches," Bishop Marcos Berti of the Virgin and Bishop Abraham Church said. "Claims from Muslims that the church was mainly a factory are nonsense," he said. "The owner of the factory bestowed it to Christians to build a church in 2008," added Berti.

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