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APTOPIX Mideast Egypt Church Attack

2011-01-04T14:32:25Z

Two Coptic men, center and unseen, warn off two others wielding kitchen knives, left and right, who were trying to kick down the doors of a mosque, seen behind, during heavy clashes between Coptic youths and riot police, in the streets outside the Saints Church and a neighboring hospital, in Alexandria, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. A powerful bomb, possibly from a suicide attacker, exp...

Egypt Al Qaida

2011-01-04T14:32:23Z

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2010 file photo, Egyptian Coptic activists light candles and hold flowers during a protest against the October al-Qaida militant attack on a Baghdad church, in front of the Iraqi embassy in Cairo, Egypt. In the weeks before the New Year's Day suicide bombing of an Egyptian...

Mideast Egypt Church Attack

2011-01-03T10:00:46Z

Egyptian plainclothes police arrest two Coptic Christian youths, who were part of a noisy protest at night near the bombed church, in Alexandria, Egypt Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011. The police investigation into the New Year's church bombing that killed 21 people is focusing on a local group of Islamic hard-liners inspired by al-Qaida, Egyptian sec...

Mideast Egypt Elections

2011-01-02T07:00:22Z

Egyptian Muslims and Christians raise a copy of the Quran and a Cross in Shubra district, Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Jan.1, 2011 to protest against the terrorist attack on a Coptic Christian church in the northern Egyptian city of Alexandria. A powerful bomb, possibly from a suicide attacker, exploded in front of a Coptic Christian church as a crowd of worshippers emerged ...

Mideast Egypt Christians Threatened

2010-12-26T11:01:14Z

FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 8, 2010 file photo, Egyptian Coptic activists light candles and hold flowers during a protest against the October al-Qaida militant attack on a Baghdad church, in front of the Iraqi embassy in Cairo, Egypt. The wives of two Egyptian Coptic priests, forbidden by the Church from divorcing their abusive husbands, desperat...