Tag: coptic
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#Egypt’s Christians Stunned After #Coptic Church Shooting
from chron.com: Egypt’s Christians were stunned Monday by a drive-by shooting in which masked gunmen sprayed a wedding party outside a Cairo church with automatic weapons fire, killing four people, including two young girls, in an attack that raised fears of a nascent insurgency by extremists after the military’s ouster of the president and a…
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Coptic Pope’s Death Adds to Fears in Egypt’s Time of Transition
from nytimes.com: A tearful crowd of thousands that included members of Egypt’s emerging political class attended a funeral service Tuesday for Pope Shenouda III, who spent four decades as the popular and charismatic leader of the country’s Coptic Orthodox Church. During a two-hour morning ceremony, with prayers read in Arabic and Coptic, the pope, dressed…