Egypt’s public prosecutor has filed murder charges against a man accused of killing 11 people in an attack on a Coptic church and a Christian-owned shop in a Cairo suburb last week, judicial sources said.
The man, arrested after the Dec. 29 attack, was receiving medical treatment in custody for injuries sustained in an exchange of gunfire with authorities outsideRead more
Six people were killed and 31 others were injured Sunday in a suicide bombing near a Coptic church in Egypt's Alexandria governorate, Egyptian ministry of health said.
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Egyptian Ambassador to Togo Karim Sherif said a medical convoy, the second by the Coptic Church, started work at a government hospital here.
They are providing medical services and medicines for free for Togolese citizens, Sherif said.
Sherif visited the convoy Tuesday night to offer condolences for victims of the terrorist attack on the Boutroseya Church.
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Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark Diocese left here on Thursday for Greece on a pastoral visit, the first by an Egyptian pontiff to Greece in 25 years.
The pope is set to visit the Coptic Orthodox Church in Athens and attends the launching of a new Coptic church and the opening of an affiliated servicesRead more