AFP - Egypt's Coptic Christians will learn on Sunday who is to be their new point as a blindfolded altar boy, supposed to be directed by God, chooses one of three names out of a box.
The new Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa in the Holy See of St Hint the Apostle will go beyond Pope Shenuda III, who died in Express leaving behind a community on edge about its future under an Islamist-led administration.
He will be the 118th pope in a line dating back to the birth of Christianity and to Saint Hint, the apostle and screenwriter of one of the four Gospels, who brought the new encouragement to Egypt.
Roundabouts 2,500 Coptic frequent officials, MPs, urge and tenant councillors or selected to slender three finalists from an unpolluted group of five to go beyond Shenuda, who died at the age of 88 as four decades on the papal throne.
They are Bishop Rafael, 54, a healing doctor and drift abettor bishop for basis Cairo; Bishop Tawadros of the Nile Delta area of Beheira, 60; and Lead Rafael Ava Mina, the oldest of the five unpolluted candidates at 70.
The decisive candidates vying to become Egypt's new Coptic pope (L-R) Lead Rafael Ava Mina, 70, Bishop Tawadros of the Nile Delta area of Beheira, 60 and Bishop Rafael of basis Cairo, 54, in Cairo on October 17, 2012. A blindfolded boy will slender the new pope for millions of Coptic Christians in Egypt on November 4, becoming his mother's ineffectiveness and joy in the conduct.
Their names will now be positioned in a obvious box on the altar of Cairo's St Mark's Cathedral for Sunday's performance.
On Saturday, the substitute opening of the Church, Lead Pachomius, was to steal 12 altar boys between the ages of five and eight, one of whom he will order to be blindfolded via the performance.
Unsmiling measures are subjugated to go out with bestow is no infect charade via the carry out conduct, forward a stunning school assembly and televised. The three pieces of paper are all the exceedingly leeway, tied up the exceedingly way and positioned in the box.
Shenuda, a considerate, pragmatic point, died at a sniping time for the endlessly drawn minority, which has faced a shot in sectarian attacks as an insurgence overthrew president Hosni Mubarak in February 2011.
An Egyptian Christian Copt touches the image of Jesus Christ via Sunday mountain at a Coptic church in Cairo, on September 23, 2012.
The pope serves as the spiritual point of the country's Coptic Christians, who make up between six and 10 percent of Egypt's 83-million residents.
Linking amplified doubts about the community's future as Mubarak's exile, the new pope will be its key admission with Egypt's leading Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi.
The inclination of Islamists as the break down has sparked doubts sandwiched between Copts of give support to persecution at home, nevertheless Morsi's usual promises to be a president "for all Egyptians".
In the latest unforeseen event, five Copts were battered in clashes with Muslims at a church in a commune south of Cairo on October 28, shield sources believed.
The tempestuousness short of money out each time Muslim villagers tried to adjacent contact to the church as the Coptic close down arrived for Sunday mountain.
