Nov 6, 2012

Egypt's Coptics choose new Pope



Egypt's Coptic Christian Church has chosen a new pope. Bishop, Tawadros became the new leader of the church early Sunday when a boy whose eyes were covered picked his name from a glass container. The selection was made at a ceremony in Cairo's Coptic Cathedral. Bishop Tawadros is 60 years old. He follows Pope Shenouda the Third who died last March at the age of 88. Church activists hope the new pope will guide Coptics through the insecurity in Egypt since the last year's political revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak. Christians are about 10 percent of Egypt's population. Most of rest are Muslim.

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(日本語訳)
エジプトのコプト正教会は新らたな教皇を選出した。日曜日朝早く、目隠しをした少年がガラスの容器からタワドロス司教の名前を引上げ、彼がの新たな教会のリーダーとなった。カイロのコプト大聖堂の式典の中で、選出が行われた。タワドロス司教は60歳である。彼は、今年の3月88歳で亡くなったシュノーダ教皇を継ぐことになった。教会活動家たちは新しい教皇が、ホス二・ムバラク大統領を追放した去年の政治革命以降不安定となっている中でコプト正教を導いてくれることを望んでいる。エジプトでは人口の約10%がキリスト教徒で、それ以外のほとんどはイスラム教徒である。

2 comments:

ジョン said...

Great work. I just spotted one typo (Chritians), so I'd call this perfect. I think it's impressive how well you can understand international stories like this.

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