Update on this story from the BBC:
Egypt’s Coptic Christians have protested in the city of Alexandria to demand greater protection following knife attacks at three churches.
Hundreds rallied with banners reading: “Stop the persecution of Copts.”
One person was killed and several others injured in the attacks during Friday Mass…
One woman worshipper, Nadia Lofti, said: “We cannot enter their mosques and kill them, yet they can come to our churches and kill us. Where are the police and the government?”
Some Copts argue that previous attacks on them have gone unpunished or have drawn light sentences…
The Muslim Brotherhood sympathised with the Copts’ protest. Senior official Saber Abou el-Fotooh said: “The interior ministry’s resources are stretched thin because it is preoccupied with chasing the Muslim Brotherhood.”…