The Times On Line in England reports today that seven people were killed after being sprayed with bullets in a drive-by shooting, as they left a Coptic Christian Church in southern Egypt yesterday (January 6, 2010).
Three men in a passing car opened fire on churchgoers as they left a midnight Mass for Coptic Christmas in the town of Nag Hamadi in Qena province. Egyptian authorities believe the attack was in retalation for the rape in November, 2009 of a Muslim girl by a Christian man in the same town.
Christians -- mostly Coptic -- account for about 10 percent of Egypt's predominantly Muslim population.
Bishop Kirollos of the Nag Hamadi Diocese said six male churchgoers and one security guard were killed. He also said he had an idea of who the attackers were, calling them "Muslim radicals."
Bishop Kirollos concluded, "This is a religious war about how they can finish off the Christians in Egypt."
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