{"id":40718,"date":"2013-10-24T16:58:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T16:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ct_why_protesting_a_drive-by_shooting_is_complicated_for_egypts_christians\/"},"modified":"2013-10-24T16:58:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T16:58:48","slug":"ct_why_protesting_a_drive-by_shooting_is_complicated_for_egypts_christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40718","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Why protesting a drive-by shooting is complicated for Egypt&#39;s Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wedding party stood outside the church, eagerly awaiting the ceremonious arrival of the bride. Instead, drive-by shooters killed four, including two children and the groom&#8217;s mother, and injured 18.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond its poignancy, the attack in Cairo&#8217;s industrial neighborhood of Warraq was significant for being one of the first to target Egypt&#8217;s Christians specifically, versus the now-common attacks on their church buildings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since the revolution, this is the first instance Coptic people were targeted randomly in a church, with weapons,&#8221; said Mina Magdy, general coordinator for the Maspero Youth Union, a mostly Coptic revolutionary group formed in response to church burnings in 2011 after the fall of President Hosni Mubarak.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/gleanings\/2013\/october\/tale-of-two-weddings-egypt-copts-warraq-shooting.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wedding party stood outside the church, eagerly awaiting the ceremonious arrival of the bride. Instead, drive-by shooters killed four, including two children and the groom&#8217;s mother, and injured 18. Beyond its poignancy, the attack in Cairo&#8217;s industrial neighborhood of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40718\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,411,560,168,161,426,98,203,659,154,155,151,108,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-coptic-church","category-egypt","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-marriage-family","category-middle-east","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}