The Saint Mark Church of Orthodox Copts in France held an Easter Mass on Saturday evening, attended by a host of diplomats and officials led by Egypt’s ambassador in Paris Nāsir Kāmil and Brig. Muhammad Ra’fat al-Dash, Egypt’s military attaché in the French capital.

Dash conveyed congratulations by SCAF Chairman Field Marshal Muhammad Husayn Tantāwī, SCAF Deputy Chairman Lt. General Sāmī ‘Anān, SCAF members and all commanders, officers, NCOs and soldiers of the Egyptian Armed Forces to Father Girgis Lūqā, the head of the Coptic church in France and all Copts on Easter. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Ahrām, April 15, p. 11] Read original text in Arabic