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Egypt Copts hope for bright future

Months after a bomb in a church killed 20, Christians put faith in a new era of peace.

As the country emerges from three decades of Hosni Mubarak’s rule, civil society is being opened to change. Following tensions and violence between religious groups – which many believe were stoked by the administration as a method of “divide and conquer” – minorities are now hopeful of better times in the years to come.

Jamal Elshayyal reports from Alexandria on the historic union between Copts and Muslims in Egypt – and their aspirations for a shared future.