Egypt’s Christians, attacked for supporting coup leader, await rebuilding
(The Christian Science Monitor) At the Amir Tadros Church in Minya, worshipers pray in what amounts to a building site. Nestled among the scaffolding, a bright blue sign proclaims that work will be completed by June. This past June.
The church in this Upper Egyptian city of a quarter million people, home to one of the largest concentrations of Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority, was one of dozens of Christian properties and places of worship destroyed across Egypt on August 14, 2013.
In Minya, mobs chanting Islamist slogans led the charge, looting and burning in response to a state-led massacre unfolding 150 miles away in Cairo, where Muslim Brotherhood–backed demonstrators were protesting the military coup that overthrew the democratically elected Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi.
