ICC Note: The most recent sectarian attack in Egypt happened on Wednesday, August 24, when a knife-wielding man stabbed a guard at a Coptic church  in Cairo’s eastern suburb of Nozha. The man was shot and killed by other guards at the church. Authorities are investigating the attacker and his motives. Attacks against Copts and Coptic Churches have been spiking recently.

08/25/2016 Egypt (Crux): Egypt’s state news agency says a knife-wielding attacker has been shot and killed after he stabbed a guard at a Coptic church, the latest in which has been a stepped-up round of assaults on the country’s influential Christian minority.

Egypt’s state news agency says a knife-wielding attacker has been shot and killed after he stabbed a guard at a Coptic church.

MENA says the attack happened early on Wednesday at the Virgin Mary church in Cairo’s eastern suburb of Nozha. The report says other church guards at the scene killed the assailant, whose identity and motives were unclear.

MENA said that authorities are investigating.

Attacks on Coptic churches in Egypt have stepped up over the past years, especially after Coptic Christians sided with the Egyptian army in the military’s 2013 ouster of the Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

Scores of churches were stormed, looted, and torched afterward.  Most of the assaults took place in southern Egypt.

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