Protestant pastor in Egypt run down, killed by taxi

CAIRO, Egypt — Under threat from Egypt’s security police for holding services at his house church, a Protestant pastor was run down by a taxi in Cairo and died of internal bleeding and a broken skull. Pastor Ezzat Habib, his son Ibram and a friend were crossing the street in Cairo’s Matereya district on the evening of Oct. 23 when a parked taxi pulled into the street and hit them from behind.

The pastor, 58, was immediately taken to a local hospital, where he underwent surgery the following morning but died later that day. The incident culminates two years of harassment in which Habib was jailed and tortured.