Blast outside church in Egypt's Alexandria-Al Jazeera
CAIRO Jan 1 (Reuters) - An explosion struck outside a Christian church in Egypt's northern city of Alexandria, the Arabic news channel Al Jazeera reported on Saturday.
The brief television headline gave no other details. Mulsim majority Egypt has a large Christian minority, making up about 10 percent of the nation's 79 million. (Reporting by Edmund Blair; Editing by Matthew Jones)
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Comments (3)
notplayfair wrote:
For 2010 this Islam the religion of peace, has killed 7 Coptic at Christmas day kidnapped hundreds of coptic woman. Long list short end the year killing 65+ Coptic’s on New year’s day. Peaceful religion what a joke. A religion of evil is more accurate for Islam.
sanctusj wrote:
I’m an Egyptian Christian Copt. And this act can never be done by an Egyptian. It’s an outsider act. And it’s main aim is to disturb our national peace.
All of us, Christians and Muslims completely deny such acts.
Egypt will never be a second Iraq.
All of us, Christians and Muslims completely deny such acts.
Egypt will never be a second Iraq.
nimb777 wrote:
Those terrorists and their biased ideals are a shame to Egypt and Islam.
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