Christians Urged to Cooperate in Creating Egypt’s New Gov’t
ICC Note:
“Christians have been urged to cooperate with Muslims to ensure equal rights for the minority group as the nation begins the process of forming a new government,” The Christian Post reports.
By Rachel Ford
2/15/2011 Egypt (Christian Post) – Egyptian Christians have been urged to cooperate with Muslims to ensure equal rights for the minority group as the nation begins the process of forming a new government.
Though the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak last Friday was the will of the nation, it is the next step that really counts, insisted Jesuit Fr. Samir Khalil Samir, an Egyptian expert in Islam and adviser to the Catholic Church on Muslim-Christian relations.
In an interview with Catholic News Agency, he stated that a reformed constitution was needed to “help people to live a little more humanly.”
“Maybe after this, after having passed through an authoritarian regime, people will really try to do something more democratic,” he said.
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As Egypt’s new military rulers step in to oversee the transitional period, Samir claimed that Christians need to be “very much involved in the society, in the political and social and economic world of the nation.”
He noted equality in the job market, the ability to obtain permits to build churches and the freedom for Egyptians to convert to Christianity without threat of harm as the major areas of concern for the Christian community.
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