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Muslims, Copts aim to ease tensions
Muslims help rebuild Egyptian church set ablaze, but some fear gesture will not be enough.
Last Modified: 15 Mar 2011 17:17 GMT

Reconstruction has begun on an Egyptian church set ablaze last week.

Egypt's army is supervising the work on the church in a small town south of Cairo.

But, as Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports, some fear the gesture will not be enough to ease tensions between Muslims and Coptic Christians.

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