[Sly Fox]

This has really gone from sporadic small incidents into a major issue in recent months throughout the Middle East. The New Year's bombing in Egypt is pushing this further into our collective consciousness.

Coptic church bombing in Egypt is latest assault on Mideast Christians
The New Year's blast kills 21 and sparks clashes between police and Copts. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak accuses foreign elements of involvement in the terrorist attack, which drew condemnation across the Middle East.


The deadly New Year's bombing at the Coptic church in Alexandria sparks clashes between angry Christians and Egyptian riot police. (Reuters / January 1, 2011)

By Borzou Daragahi and Amro Hassan, Los Angeles Times
January 1, 2011, 3:39 p.m.

Reporting from Beirut and Cairo — A devastating New Year's Day terrorist bombing at a Coptic church in Egypt that killed 21 people was the latest in a spate of violent assaults against the Middle East's vulnerable Christian communities.

The car bomb explosion also injured 79 people just after midnight Saturday as worshipers were leaving a New Year's Mass at the Saints Church in east Alexandria, Egyptian officials said. The bombing sparked street clashes between police and angry Copts, who hurled stones, stormed a nearby mosque and threw some of its books into the street.

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Do we simply write this off as a sign of the times and move on. Or is this something that demands our attention and possibly action of some sort?

[thepostman]

what do you mean by take action? The military or us as Christians?

I am not sure what it is we can do...it is so much history is so much more complex then I think any of us could ever understand

[jbock13]

I mean, how many of these stories, especially in places like africa, go unreported everyday? I'm not saying its not sad, but still.

[SumItUp]

I mean, how many of these stories, especially in places like africa, go unreported everyday? I'm not saying its not sad, but still.

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