Mohammed Bin Zayed: Christian delegations


Issue 970 - 28 May 2014 | 1 minute read

Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (MBZ) received the Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark Episcopate Pope Tawadros II on 12 May, with whom he discussed UAE relations with Egypt. The same day, he met John X Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, who thanked the UAE for providing a plot of land in the Mussafah area of Abu Dhabi to build an Orthodox Church. Among those attending the meetings were MBZ’s brothers, the ruler’s representative in the Western Region Sheikh Hamdan Bin Zayed and presidential affairs minister Mansour Bin Zayed, interior minister Lieutenant General Saif Bin Zayed

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