CIAO DATE: 02/2010
January 2010
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
On January 6 -- Christmas Eve according to the Eastern Orthodox calendar -- six Coptic Christians and a policeman were killed in a drive-by shooting while exiting church in Naga Hammadi, Upper Egypt. The attack, which came in retaliation to an alleged rape of a twelve-year-old Muslim girl by a Christian man, was the largest assault on Copts in Egypt since a January 2000 massacre left twenty dead in Sohag.
Resource link: Renewed Violence against Egypt's Coptic Christians [PDF] - 13K