Remarks at St Mark Coptic Orthodox Church
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PRIME MINISTER: Thank you so much. Your Graces, Bishop Daniel and Paula. Reverend fathers and members of the congregation. Thank you so much for inviting Lucy and me to attend your mass this morning in this beautiful church. We`re here together in this Coptic church, nearly 2,000 years of continuity to the time when the apostle Mark - who of course was born just to the west of Egypt in Cyrene - returned to Egypt and founded the church in Egypt, the Coptic Church. Mark`s gospel begins with a passage from Isiah, which prophesised the coming of John the Baptist. But I wonder whether the apostle, when he wrote his gospel, was he thinking also of another passage of Isiah which foretold the coming...