{"id":419458,"date":"2011-05-08T01:08:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T01:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/08\/6-dead-in-sectarian-clashes-in-cairo\/"},"modified":"2011-05-08T01:08:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T01:08:17","slug":"6-dead-in-sectarian-clashes-in-cairo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/08\/6-dead-in-sectarian-clashes-in-cairo\/","title":{"rendered":"6 dead in sectarian clashes in Cairo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"76.1632653061\">\n<div readability=\"61.6060845516\">\n<p>Egyptians gather as firefighters extinguish a fire in a church after clashes between Muslims and Christians in Cairo on Saturday.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>STORY HIGHLIGHTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;People attacked us, and we have to protect ourselves,&#8221; says a Christian resident<\/li>\n<li>120 people were injured in the clashes<\/li>\n<li>Tensions have risen this year between Egypt&#8217;s Muslim majority and its Coptic minority<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Cairo, Egypt<\/strong> &#8212; Six people were killed and 120 injured in sectarian clashes outside a church in Cairo on Saturday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>An angry group of Muslim Salafists attacked the Saint Mena Coptic Orthodox Church. They were upset over reports of a woman being held against her will after allegedly converting to Islam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With my own eyes I saw three people killed and dozens injured,&#8221; said Mina Adel, a Christian resident. &#8220;There&#8217;s no security here. There&#8217;s a big problem. People attacked us, and we have to protect ourselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Egyptian Interior Ministry spokesman Alla Mahmoud said in a statement that six people were killed and 120 injured in the violence.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities sent soldiers and police to help secure the area.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions have risen this year between Egypt&#8217;s Muslim majority and its Coptic minority.<\/p>\n<p>A Coptic church in the town of Alexandria was bombed on New Year&#8217;s Day, killing 23 people. The Palestinian Islamic Army, which has links to al Qaeda, claimed responsibility for what was the deadliest attack on Christians in Egypt in recent times.<\/p>\n<p>Ten days later, a gunman killed a Christian man and wounded five other Christians on a train in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>In November, a group with ties to <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.cnn.com\/topics\/Al_Qaeda\">al Qaeda<\/a> in Iraq announced that all Christians in the Middle East would be &#8220;legitimate targets,&#8221; as the group&#8217;s deadline for <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.cnn.com\/topics\/Egypt\">Egypt<\/a>&#8216;s Coptic church to release alleged Muslim female prisoners expired.<\/p>\n<p>The group&#8217;s claim that the Coptic Church in Egypt is holding female prisoners is based on widespread rumors of Coptic women in Egypt converting to Islam and being detained by the church in an attempt to compel or persuade them to return to their original faith.<\/p>\n<p>About 9% of Egypt&#8217;s 80 million residents are Coptic Christians. They base their theology on the teachings of the Apostle Mark, who introduced Christianity to Egypt, according to St. Takla Church in Alexandria, the capital of Coptic Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>The religion split with other Christians in the 5th century over the definition of the divinity of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Journalists Ian Lee and Mohamed Fadel Fahmy contributed to this report.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[Read more here|Read the original here|Read more from the original source|Continued here|Read more|More here|View original post here|More|See more here|See original here|Originally posted here|Here is the original post|See the original post|The rest is here|Read the rest here|See the rest here|Go here to read the rest|Go here to see the original|See the original post here|Read the original post|Original post|Read the original|Link|Excerpt from|View post|Visit link|Follow this link|Continue reading here|See the article here|Read this article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Egyptians gather as firefighters extinguish a fire in a church after clashes between Muslims and Christians in Cairo on Saturday. STORY HIGHLIGHTS &#8220;People attacked us, and we have to protect ourselves,&#8221; says a Christian resident 120 people were injured in the clashes Tensions have risen this year between Egypt&#8217;s Muslim majority and its Coptic minority Cairo, Egypt &#8212; Six people were killed and 120 injured in sectarian clashes outside a church in Cairo on Saturday, officials said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>6 dead in sectarian clashes in Cairo - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/08\/6-dead-in-sectarian-clashes-in-cairo\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"6 dead in sectarian clashes in Cairo - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Egyptians gather as firefighters extinguish a fire in a church after clashes between Muslims and Christians in Cairo on Saturday. 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