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http://sources.jhia.ac.ke:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/348| Title: | Serving Christians and Muslims alike in the shadow of Egypt's Piramids |
| Authors: | Fenech, Anthony |
| Keywords: | Muslims Christians Cairo, Egypt Jesuits |
| Issue Date: | 2004 |
| Publisher: | Roma: The General Curiae of the Society of Jesus, 2004. |
| Citation: | Jesuits: Men With Others |
| Series/Report no.: | Jesuit Year Book, 2004;p.137-40 |
| Abstract: | As you leave Cairo, traveling southwards, you enter a different kind of Egypt: "Upper Egypt", a long, narrow, pleasant, green band of very fertile land in the middle of the scorching desert, stretching for almost a thousand kilometers as far as Aswan, the High Dam and Lake Nasser. You can stop at a provincial town 250 km. South of Cairo, the city of............. |
| Description: | In Minia, the city of legendary Nefertiti, a Jesuit community was established in 1887. By 1992 there were 43 Jesuit schools in Egypt. At present Jesuits and laypeople form an Association which has placed five buildings, three athletic fields and a swimming pool at the disposal of an educational program for Christian and Muslim youth. The Association also sponsors programs of alphabetization in some 20 villages around Minia. |
| URI: | http://sources.jhia.ac.ke:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/348 |
| Appears in Collections: | Publications |
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