On February 9, the Egyptian churches called for “A week of global prayer” for the unity of the churches. Representatives of the Coptic Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical churches attended the meeting in the Evangelical church in al-Fajāllah.
Coptic Orthodox Metropolitan Bīshūy of Damietta said: “We should not be fanatics but ready to be introduced to the right”. He added that this is the first meeting that calls for unity after the death of Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III.
Dr. Rev. Safwat al-Bayādī, head of the Evangelical Church in Egypt, for his part, said that Egypt has seven Catholic denominations, four Orthodox and 17 Evangelical. He added that the Evangelical Church owes the Orthodox fathers who preserved Christianity in Egypt; without them neither the Church nor Christianity would have existed in Egypt.
The Most Rev. Dr. Mouneer H. Anis of the Episcopal/Anglican Diocese of Egypt with North Africa and the Horn of Africa said that the unity of the Church is a necessity (Michael Fāris, al-Yawm al-Sābi’, Feb. 11, p. 3). Read original text in Arabic
