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Visitors can begin to follow Jesus along Egypt's Holy Family Trail

Cairo has completed work on the first stops on the Holy Family Trail, a path connecting locations believed to have been visited by the Holy Family 2,000 years ago while fleeing King Herod’s soldiers.

A correspondent in Egypt
A correspondent in Egypt
Jan 21, 2021
This picture taken on October 19, 2018 shows camels belonging to Sinai bedouins waiting along the footpath leading down from atop Mount Catherine, above the 6th-century Greek Orthodox Christian monastery of Saint Catherine and near the Egyptian town of the same name in south of the Sinai peninsula. (Photo by Sally KANDIL / AFP) (Photo credit should read SALLY KANDIL/AFP via Getty Images)
This picture taken Oct. 19, 2018, shows camels belonging to Sinai bedouins waiting along the footpath leading down from atop Mount Catherine, above the 6th-century Greek Orthodox Christian monastery of Saint Catherine and near the Egyptian town of the same name in the south of the Sinai peninsula. — SALLY KANDIL/AFP via Getty Images

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