Egypt’s Coptic Leader: ‘Christians Are Not a Minority in Terms of Value to the Nation’

By Katherine Weber , Christian Post Reporter 9/2/13 Pope Tawadros II, Egypt’s Coptic leader, has issued an uncharacteristically sharp assessment of the North African country’s leadership in a recent interview, asserting the important role Christianity plays in the country and addressing the newly minted constitution with which many minorities hold fault. “We are a part of the soil of this nation and an extension of the pharaohs and their age before Christ.