i kyrkan. (Koptiska kyrkor har oftast kraftiga järngrindar…..)
Men i själva kyrkporten knivhuggs fader Simon till döds.
A Coptic priest affiliated with a church in Upper Egypt’s governorate of Beni Suef was stabbed by a man on Thursday in Cairo’s northeastern suburb of El–Marg, state-run newspaper of Akhbar Al Youm reported.
The priest, Samaan Shehta, was in Cairo when a young unemployed man blocked the way in front of his vehicle and asked him to step down from it. He then hit the priest’s head with cleaver and ran away, a local journalist told Egypt Independent on condition of anonymity.
“It is believed that it is a hate crime that has been executed by an extremist affiliated to IS or Salafism,” he explained.
The Egyptian Coptic Church released a statement asserting that the death of priest Samaan Shehta occurred near El-salam city while he was with another priest, Benjamin
Moftah, who was also assaulted. The statement did not provide further details about
the second priest.
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Samtidigt varnar en brittisk forskare för hur kalifatets inflytande över salafisterna i Egypten växer och resulterar i ett ökande antal anti-koptiska våldsdåd.
Igår rapporterade AINA News hur sju kristna och poliser dödats vid en kalifatattack i El-Arish nära gränsen till Israel.
