Dozens of Copts protest Pope’s Christmas Eve invitation to Salafis

30/12/2011 Dozens of Coptic youth staged a protest inside Saint Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral on Friday against Pope Shenouda’s invitation to Salafis and the Muslim Brotherhood to attend the Christmas Eve Mass on 7 January, Al-Ahram state-run newspaper said on its website Friday. Pope Shenouda sent invitations for all political factions to attend the Christmas Eve Mass including Salafi parties Asala, Nour and Fadila as well as the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, a church source said on Wednesday.