ISIS is claiming responsibility for the blood on the floor yesterday during Palm Sunday services at St. George’s Coptic Church in Tanta, Egypt. Forty people were killed and 71 injured; meanwhile Pope Tawadros II escaped another attack at St. Mark’s Cathedral, Alexandria, which killed 13 and wounded 21 others. As someone put it mildly on Twitter, “it isn’t easy being Christian in Egypt.” (Khaled Elfiqi/European Pressphoto Agency)
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