(Please pray that Muslims will be led to Christ and salvation as an outcome of this Christian channel.)
The first Christian satellite channel in Egypt is due to start broadcasting on Monday.Aghapy Television was established by the Coptic Christian church, the main church in Egypt.
Copts make up an estimated 10% of the Egyptian population and they complain of discrimination.
Three people died in Alexandria in October after Muslim demonstrators attacked a church which had put on a play seen as offensive to Islam.
Aghapy TV will be the first ever television channel in Egypt to broadcast programmes with a purely Christian outlook.
The Coptic channel will carry church services, family programmes and documentaries about ancient monasteries.
But some here are worried that the presence of a Coptic channel may exacerbate the tensions between Muslims and Christians which periodically flare up into violence.
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