Christians and churches in Egypt: Aggression from all sides | MadaMasr
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The past five decades have seen churches continually targeted by sectarian violence. Across the country, attacks on churches and churchgoers have manifested in numerous ways, carried out by different actors for different causes, with varying levels of violence. Yet the targets remain the same.
We tracked four different sources of sectarian aggression against churches and Christians: communal violence, attacks by militant groups, the targeting of Christians as part of the military-Islamist conflict and state violence. All point to a sectarianism that is both socially and politically pronounced.