Qualla: Botroseya Church Bombing https://qualla.com/botroseya-church-bombing en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Botroseya Church Bombing https://qualla.com/botroseya-church-bombing Botroseya Church Bombing: Introduction https://qualla.com/botroseya-church-bombing/ Sunday morning services were underway at St. Peter and St. Paul's Church -- a small chapel adjoining Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, the seat of the Coptic Pope himself -- when a 22-year-old man wearing an explosive vest walked inside and detonated 12 kilograms of TNT. It was around 10:00 am on 11 December 2016, in Cairo's Abbasia district. Twenty-nine people died. Forty-seven more were wounded. The blast blackened the cathedral walls, shattered the chapel interior, and struck at the symbolic heart of Egypt's Coptic Christian community, which traces its roots to the earliest centuries of Christianity and today comprises roughly ten percent of Egypt's population.

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/t/q/5/botroseya-church-bombing-wp/stq5-botroseya-church-bombing-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Botroseya Church Bombing: A Morning Shattered https://qualla.com/botroseya-church-bombing/ The explosion tore through the chapel adjacent to the cathedral's main entrance. Initial reports were confused -- authorities could not immediately determine whether the device had been planted in advance or carried in by a bomber. The scale of destruction suggested a large devic...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/t/q/5/botroseya-church-bombing-wp/stq5-botroseya-church-bombing-a-morning-shattered.mp3 0:06 2 full Botroseya Church Bombing: The Trail of Responsibility https://qualla.com/botroseya-church-bombing/ President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi identified the bomber the following day as Mahmoud Shafiq Mohammed Mustafa. Three men and a woman were arrested in connection with the attack, with two more suspects sought. On 13 December, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibi...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/t/q/5/botroseya-church-bombing-wp/stq5-botroseya-church-bombing-the-trail-of-responsibility.mp3 0:06 3 full Botroseya Church Bombing: Grief Across a Divided Nation https://qualla.com/botroseya-church-bombing/ President Sisi declared three days of national mourning, calling the attack evidence of "vicious terrorism waged against the country's Copts and Muslims." Coptic Pope Tawadros II, who cut short a trip to Greece to return to Cairo, framed the bombing as "not just a disaster for th...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/t/q/5/botroseya-church-bombing-wp/stq5-botroseya-church-bombing-grief-across-a-divided-nation.mp3 0:06 4 full Botroseya Church Bombing: The Weight of Being Coptic in Egypt https://qualla.com/botroseya-church-bombing/ The Botroseya bombing did not occur in isolation. It followed the 2011 Alexandria church bombing, which killed 23 people on New Year's Eve, and preceded the 2017 Palm Sunday attacks on churches in Tanta and Alexandria that killed 45. For Egypt's Coptic Christians -- a community t...

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