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April 11, 2012

USA Today: Coptic Christians fight for place in Egypt's political scene

by Sarah Lynch
USA Today

Father Alfons Marzou shuffles across a complex that is home to sisters for the Catholic Missionaries of Charity, whose nuns provide medical care and food to impoverished children living amid heaps of garbage.

"Look around," Marzou says, motioning to the filthy streets outside the walls where families live among refuse for resale in what is known as Garbage City.

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