Earlier this week, sectarian violence in the village of Dahshour south of Cairo saw a Muslim mob torching Christian homes and damaging the local church, which forced many Christian families to flee the village Wednesday. The attack was sparked when an earlier personal dispute swelled into violence and a Muslim man died.
At a press conference before the swearing in, Kandil noted the country's "grave challenges."
"We are all Egyptians in the Arab Republic of Egypt. The coming period is not easy, to say the least, and we are all in the same boat," he said. "This is the people's government, it does not belong to this or that trend."
