EL-UDAYSAAT, Egypt — One Christian has died and at least 11 others were reportedly injured Jan. 19 when Muslims clashed with security police and set fire to a Christian community center in Upper Egypt.
Coptic Christian Kamaal Shaker died of injuries he received when a group of Muslims set fire to an Orthodox-owned building in the town of el-Udaysaat, near the city of Luxor. Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III planned to send seven bishops to el-Udaysaat Jan. 21 for Shaker’s funeral service, said Youssef Sidhom, editor of the Egyptian weekly Watani. He said the funeral would be held at a venue unlicensed as a church, in apparent protest against Egypt’s restrictive law governing the building and basic upkeep of non-Muslim places of worship.
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