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Thousands of Copts celebrate Christmas
Anwar Ahmad
January 6, 2015 Updated: January 6, 2015 11:46 PM
ABU DHABI // Thousands of Egyptian Christians are celebrating Christmas across the Emirates on Wednesday.
Children dressed in colourful traditional dresses filled the capital’s Coptic church on Tuesday for evening mass to mark Christmas Eve. They stayed well into the night for gospel readings, followed by a dinner in the early hours of Christmas morning.
But amid the celebrations also comes a message of peace, something many Egyptians have found precious little of in their homeland in recent times.
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Thousands of Copts celebrate Christmas in the UAE The National
Thousands of Copts celebrate Christmas
Anwar Ahmad
January 6, 2015 Updated: January 6, 2015 11:46 PM
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ABU DHABI // Thousands of Egyptian Christians are celebrating Christmas across the Emirates on Wednesday.
Children dressed in colourful traditional dresses filled the capital’s Coptic church on Tuesday for evening mass to mark Christmas Eve. They stayed well into the night for gospel readings, followed by a dinner in the early hours of Christmas morning.
But amid the celebrations also comes a message of peace, something many Egyptians have found precious little of in their homeland in recent times.
Continue reading at:
Thousands of Copts celebrate Christmas in the UAE The National
