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- On Palm Sunday, 9 April 2017, twin suicide bombings took place at St. George's Church in the northern Egyptian city of Tanta on the Nile delta, and Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, the principal church in Alexandria, seat of the Coptic papacy. At least 375 people were reported killed and 789 injured.
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Apr 8, 2022 · On January 1, 2011, an explosion at Al-Qudiseen Church in Alexandria killed 23 people and wounded 100 and attacks against Copt Christians continued with regularity, including the infamous Maspero...
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On Palm Sunday, 9 April 2017, twin suicide bombings took place at St. George's Church in the northern Egyptian city of Tanta on the Nile delta, and Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, the principal church in Alexandria, seat of the Coptic papacy. At least 375 people were reported killed and 789 injured. [1]
- 9 April 2017, Palm Sunday
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- Total: 47, Tanta: 30, Alexandria: 17
Apr 10, 2017 · CAIRO - The twin church attacks in Egypt on Palm Sunday (April 9) - one of the holiest days in Christianity - were among the deadliest assaults against Christians in the country in decades. One...
Apr 9, 2017 · Relatives and onlookers gather outside St. George Coptic church after a bomb attack in the Nile Delta town of Tanta, Egypt, Sunday, April 9, 2017. The attack took place on Palm Sunday,...
Apr 9, 2017 · April 9, 2017 / 7:23 AM EDT / CBS/AP. CAIRO -- Suicide bombers struck hours apart at two Coptic churches in northern Egypt, killing 44 people and turning Palm Sunday services into scenes of...
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Apr 9, 2017 · Two blasts targeting Coptic Christians in Egypt on Palm Sunday have killed at least 44 people, officials say. An explosion at St George's Coptic church in Tanta killed 27 people. Hours...
Dec 29, 2017 · CAIRO (AP) — An attack Friday on Egypt’s Coptic Christians in which gunmen opened fire outside a church and at a store in the south Cairo suburb of Helwan, killing at least eight Copts and a policeman, is the latest episode in what have now become regular assaults by Islamic militants on the country’s Coptic community.
