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The leader of one of Germany's Muslim organisations is to attend a Coptic Christmas Eve service on Thursday night, in a sign of solidarity with the nearly two dozen Egyptian Christians who were killed last week by a suicide bomber.
Catholic and Lutheran leaders in Germany had said earlier that they too would attend Coptic masses. Eastern churches like that of the Copts follow a different calendar from that used by western churches, meaning that Christmas is marked nearly two weeks later.
The Central Council of Muslims in Germany, or ZMD, said its chairman, Aiman Mazyek, is to attend the mass in the western city of Dusseldorf and meet with church leaders and worshippers.