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Saturday, February 25, 2017
Egypt: Anglican Church in Ismailia receives 30 families escaping attacks on Christians in North Sinai

Anglican Church in Ismailia receives 30 families escaping attacks on
Christians in North Sinai
Over the past two weeks, eight terrorist attacks have targeted Christians in
North Sinai, including the murder of three people in Al-Arish on Wednesday
and Thursday
Ahram Online , Saturday 25 Feb 2017
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/258852/Egypt/Politics-/Anglican-Church-in-Ismailia-receives--families-esc.aspx

The Anglican Church in Egypt's Ismailia has received almost 30 Christian
families, including 150 people, who escaped North Sinai's Capital Al-Arish
after several terrorist attacks targeting Christians in the city, church
official Nabil Shukrallah Basta told Ahram Arabic news website on Saturday.

Basta said that the families have been housed in different areas of the
city, including at a youth hostel, and that more Christian families are
expected to arrive today.

Basta also mentioned the support the church has received from the Dubara
Church in Cairo, along with other churches, as well as the support of the
Ismailia governorate in containing the crisis.

In the past few days, churches in Ismailia have received dozens of Coptic
families who escaped the North Sinai city for fear of being targeted.

Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church issued a statement on Friday condemning "the
repeated terrorist attacks targeting Egyptian Christians in North Sinai."

Social solidarity minister Ghada Waly visited on Saturday the International
Youth Hostel in Ismailia to check on the Christian families staying there,
assuring that this is a temporary situation and that they will be back to
their homes within days.

Ismailia Governor Yassin Taher said that the displaced families are welcome
in the governorate, and that he has received many calls from the residents
of Ismailia offering to host the displaced families.

Over the past two weeks, eight terrorist attacks have targeted Christians in
North Sinai, including the murder of three people in Al-Arish on Wednesday
and Thursday.

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the latest attacks against
Christians. However, last Monday, the Islamic State militant group released
a video vowing to carry out attacks against the Christian community in Egypt
and promising to "liberate Cairo," even though the group's activity has
traditionally been centered in North Sinai.

The 20-minute video titled "Fight All Idolaters'' also purportedly shows the
last statements made by the suicide bomber who blew himself up in Cairo's
St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church on 11 December 2016, killing 29 Coptic
Christian worshippers, mostly women and children.

The Egyptian army, which has been waging a war against the North Sinai
Islamist insurgency -- led mostly by Islamic State affiliate Ansar Beit
Al-Maqdis -- has killed hundreds of militants in intensified comprehensive
military campaigns in the governorate.

In July 2016, Father Rafael Moussa of the Mar Girgis Church in El-Arish was
gunned down by Islamic State militants.

The group has also killed civilians in North Sinai for allegedly cooperating
with security forces.

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