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44 Killed & 100 Injured Christians in Egypt Islamic Bomb Attack
Egypt’s president called for a three-month state of emergency Sunday after at least 44 people were killed and more than 100 more were injured in two Palm Sunday suicide attacks at Coptic Christian churches, each carried out by the ISIS terror group.
Sunday’s first blast happened at St. George Church in the Nile Delta town of Tanta, where at least 27 people were killed and 78 others wounded,...
Egyptian Christians Targeted in Massive Suicide Bombing, President Vows Justice
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi declared three days of national mourning and promised justice following a suicide bombing at a Coptic Christian cathedral that left 24 people dead.
Mourners packed the Virgin Mary and St. Athanasius church in the eastern Cairo suburb of Nasr City for the funeral of 24 people killed when a suicide bomber attacked the chapel at St. Mark’s Cathedral, Cairo’s...
Mubarak says foreign hands were behind church attack
A Coptic protester in Alexandria hurls an object at riot police who opened fire outside The Saints church, after an attack outside the church that killed 21 people and wounded 79.
Egypt said a suicide bomber killed 21 people and wounded 79 outside a Coptic Christian church, in an attack President Hosni Mubarak said was the work of “foreign hands.”
Growing numbers of Christians were continuing...