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Christen,Judaism and Muslim are brotherhood and help each other and respect each other.
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Ahlul Bayt News Agency) -Mohammed Fathi worked his brush gently over an icon of
Virgin Mary and baby Jesus, removing soot from its surface inside a church
gutted in an attack by pro-Mubarak's militants this month.
"It takes a lot of careful work to do that," Fathi said. "We have to do a lot of
tests with chemicals to try to restore the icon to its original condition."
The 26-year-old is one of a vast group of mostly Muslim craftsmen tasked with
restoring St Mary's Church in the Cairo suburb of Imbaba after militants set it
on fire on May 7.
The ground floor of the four-storey church was gutted in the fire, destroying 10
out of 27 old icons beyond repair.
On Wednesday, a team of mostly Muslim restorers - working for one of Egypt's
biggest construction firms known as The Arab Contractors - huddled in one
corner, using special chemicals, paint and brushes to rescue the remaining
paintings.
"My job is to restore historic art pieces, be they Muslim, Coptic or Jewish,"
Fathi said.
Malak Gerges, a 56-year-old church driver who was inside the church at the time
of the attack, recalled how rebels led a group of young men into St Mary's,
opened fire on icons and set the building ablaze.
He said he and his younger brother Saleh tried to hide in the corridor behind
the altar but the militants found them.
"They dragged me out and threatened and abused me," Gerges told Reuters.
He said he did not know what happened to Saleh, an attendant who helped look
after the church, until rescue workers found his burned corpse inside the
church. According to an investigation report, there was a wound on Saleh's
throat, he said.
Abdel-Aziz Mohammed, working on another icon, said he was angry at the people
who burned the church. "I felt this was an act of vandalism," he said.
The governorate of Giza, where Imbaba is located, has pledged to pay for
restoration of St Mary's church, expected to cost around six million Egyptian
pounds ($1-million).
For now, workers are busy plastering and painting its walls and sweeping out the
dust, pushing to finish their work as quickly as possible.
"This work would normally require up to three months. We are doing it in 21
days," Ibrahim Mahlab, chief executive of The Arab Contractors, said while
inspecting the work. "We want to show that no intruder can create a rift between
Muslims and Christians."
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