The Minister of Egyptian Tourism Rania Al-Mashat, first woman to hold this role, met with a UNITALSI delegation. The purpose of the meeting is to coordinate and revive pilgrimages following the same route of the Holy Family in Egypt. The Minister confirmed the full cooperation of the Agency. The first groups of pilgrims will be arriving before next summer.
(from Cairo) Egyptian tourism minister Rania Al-Mashat, first woman to hold this role met with a delegation of the Italian Union for Transporting the Sick to Lourdes and International Shrines – UNITALSI –headed by Preziosa Terrinoni and Father Gianni Toni, respectively President and ecclesial assistant of the Rome- Lazio Office. The purpose of the meeting was to coordinate and revive pilgrimages following the route of the Holy Family in the land which according to tradition hosted Jesus, Joseph and Mary for three years during the flight from Herod. UNITALSI will cooperate in the organization of two pilgrimages with the diocese of Viterbo and with the Italian Charity Association SIB, chaired by Eugenio Benedetti Gallo. During the meeting Tourism Minister and the UNITALSI delegation reiterated their commitment in the promotion of the pilgrimages scheduled to start already next summer, whose itinerary details are yet to be defined. On the sidelines of the meeting Minister Al-Mashat was interviewed by journalists members of the Unitalsi delegation, due to return to Italy today. 

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