Welby condolence visit for slain Copts

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, visited Egypt last weekend to offer his condolences to religious and political leaders over the beheadings earlier this year in Libya of 21 Coptic Christians by Islamic State terrorists, writes Ellen Teague. He met President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at the presidential palace in Heliopolis, Coptic Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria at St Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo and also the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Ahmed al-Tayb. President al-Sisi thanked Archbishop Welby for his condolences and reported that in Egypt Christians have equal rights.