Pope to visit Egypt to meet imam, persecuted Copts

Pope Francis is to visit Cairo next month for talks with the grand imam of the capital's famed Al-Azhar mosque, but also to show solidarity with Coptic Christians targeted by violence in Egypt.The pontiff, co-invited by Egypt's president for the April 28-29 visit, had hosted Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayeb at the Vatican last May, in a landmark meeting with one of Islam's top clerics.The current pope has made interfaith dialogue and reconciliation a leading theme of his pontificate and has also overse