More action is needed to protect Church communities in Egypt from attack, according to one of the country’s Catholic bishops, who has appealed for prayer for the victims of two bomb blasts targeting worshipers on Palm Sunday.
Coptic Catholic Bishop Kyrillos William of Assiut, Upper Egypt, said he had met state security staff following Sunday's attacks which left 44 dead and more than 120 injured in blasts at St George’s, Tanta and St Mark’s, Alexandria – both Coptic Orthodox churches.
Speaking in an interview with Aid to the Church in Need, the Catholic charity for persecuted and other suffering Christians, Bishop William said that until now “our sense of security was not very strong”.
