Yesterday, the in selected the 60-year-old Bishop Tawadros from Beheira in the Nile Delta as the new leader of the church in a ceremony held at in  . The ceremony which selected Tawadros consisted of an altar boy wearing a blindfold picking one of three names from a chalice. The Coptic Orthodox Church represents six to ten percent of the 83 million people of Egypt and is the largest Christian community in the  . Following the overthrow of and the election of the there have been a number of violent attacks on Copts as well as complaints of discrimination.
Yesterday, the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt selected the 60-year-old Bishop Tawadros from Beheira in the Nile Delta as the new leader of the church in a ceremony held at in Cairo . The ceremony which selected Tawadros consisted of an altar boy wearing a blindfold picking one of three names from a chalice. The Coptic Orthodox Church represents six to ten percent of the 83 million people of Egypt and is the largest Christian community in the Middle East . Following the overthrow of and the election of the there have been a number of violent attacks on Copts as well as complaints of discrimination.
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