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discussed and that the Committee is determined to seek out ways of resolving these
problems and avoiding them in the future.
The Commission encouraged the Local Joint Pastoral Committee to meet regularly,
in order to enhance the collaboration in pastoral activity, educational and charitable
work and in various forms of common witness. This collaboration can never have as
its objective the passing of people from one Church to another. It is to serve the
entire Christian Community of Egypt.
At the closing session the two delegations agreed that the next meeting would be
from 27 April - 1 May 1993 at St. Bishoy Monastery.
The Coptic-Catholic dialogue continues its work, looking forward to the goal
described in the Principles of 1979. “The objective of our efforts is a full communion
of faith expressing itself in communion in sacramental life and in the harmony of
mutual relations between our two sister Churches in the one People of God”.
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