Anba Ermia at renew of religious discourse conference: Egyptian Family House model aims at rapprochement between Muslim clerics and priests

Anba Ermia, General Bishop and head of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center, stressed that Egyptian family house model aim at converging viewpoints and creating a kind of harmony between sheikhs and pastors, pointing out that in the beginning there were villages where the sheikh didn’t greet the priest and vice versa and the sheikh does not walk in a street with a church and the priest does not walk in a street with a mosque.

During the second session of renewal of religious discourse conference:between the necessities of renewal and preservation of constants, organized by the English Language Departement at the Faculty of Mass Communication, Cairo University, his grace said that when the priests and sheikhs dealt with each other this reflected on people’s behavior, adding that when that they held a lunch for Sheikhs and priests they sat apart so we mixed them together and put them in rooms together in the hotel until they began to communicate and the harmony and the convergence of views began to happen.

Anba Ermia said that if this spirit returned again, Egypt would regain its strength.