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Egypt reveals identity of Alexandria church suicide bomber

Egypt’s interior ministry identified suicide bomber in Alexandria church attack as 31-year-old Mohamed Hassan Mubarak Abdullah, a resident of Suez province, a statement said on Wednesday. Abdullah detonated his explosives at the entrance to Saint Mark’s Cathedral, the historic seat of the Coptic Pope, killing 17 people as mass was being conducted. Hours earlier, another bomb tore through a church in Tanta, a city in the Nile Delta. Egypt’s government […]

today13 April 2017

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CMRM condemns attack on Coptic Church

Muslims should never be found wanting in their clear stand on the side of humanity and a just peace. This was the unequivocal stance by Claremont Main Road Mosque (CMRM) in its response to a heinous attack on two Coptic Christian Churches in Egypt on Sunday, which claimed the lives of 44 people and maimed close to 100 people on the holy Christian day, Palm Sunday. The Islamic State group […]

today11 April 2017

International News

Sisi names bomber of Cairo Coptic Christian church

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has said a suicide bomber carried out the attack that killed 24 Christians during Sunday Mass at a Cairo chapel adjacent to St Mark's Cathedral, the seat of Egypt's ancient Coptic Orthodox Church. It was among the deadliest attacks to ever target Egypt's Coptic minority, which makes up about 10 percent of the country's population and which was perceived to have supported the military overthrow […]

today13 December 2016

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