Egypt’s president will inaugurate the country’s biggest cathedral on Coptic Christmas Eve Sunday, a day after a deadly bomb blast near a church in a country where jihadists have repeatedly targeted Christians. He said “extremists” had planted “an explosive device on the roof of Al-Haq mosque… near the Virgin Mary church”. Security has been reinforced in Cairo in recent weeks ahead of Coptic Christmas which is celebrated on January 7. On Sunday Sisi will join the Coptic pope, Tawadros II, in the cathedral which is touted as the largest in the Middle East. Last week three Vietnamese tourists and their Egyptian guide died when a homemade bomb exploded on their bus on the outskirts of Cairo.

Source: The Guardian January 06, 2019 12:34 UTC