Open Doors USA, an organization serving persecuted Christians worldwide, told TheDCNF that 95 churches, monasteries, orphanages and schools were damaged or destroyed nationwide. A further 212 Coptic Christian properties were attacked, with seven Christians killed. “We tried to independently confirm as many of these as we could, tracking down witnesses, preferably residents, who could tell us what they saw or what happened generally,” Coogle said via phone from Cairo on Tuesday. He had just returned from two days in Minya, a city in central Egypt along the banks of the Nile River with a disproportionately high Christian population. Most estimates claim that Christians make up around 10 percent of Egypt’s 82 million people. The researcher recalled a number of assaults, mostly by mobs of Muslim Brotherhood supporters, that took place in Minya over the last few days.
Posted on: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 04:20:03 +0000
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