bombing at Cairo\u2019s largest Coptic cathedral<\/a> killed at least 25 people and wounded 49, many of them women and children attending Sunday mass, in the deadliest attack on Egypt\u2019s Christian minority in years.<\/p>\nThe attack comes as President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi fights the Egyptian branch of ISIS.<\/p>\n
The militant group has also carried out deadly attacks in Cairo and has urged its supporters to launch attacks around the world in recent weeks as it goes on the defensive in its Iraqi and Syrian strongholds.<\/p>\n
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but ISIS supporters celebrated on social media. \u201cGod bless the person who did this blessed act,\u201d wrote one supporter on Telegram.<\/p>\n
The explosion took place in a chapel, which adjoins St Mark\u2019s, Cairo\u2019s main cathedral and the seat of Coptic Pope Tawadros II, where security is normally tight.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Great Apparition of the Virgin Mary at Zeitoun, Egypt<\/h2>\n
By Stephen Ryan \u00a0<\/strong>
\nIn two days Martin Luther King would be dead, a month after that Robert Kennedy would die in a crowded hotel hallway in California. These tumultuous events were soon followed by riots in Chicago, a music festival in Vermont that would define a generation and unleash a cultural tsunami of change in America.\u00a0 The day was April 2, 1968 and on that day perhaps\u00a0\u201cthe most dramatic manifestation of the supernatural\u00a0since Jesus Christ\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0occurred in Egypt in the outskirts of Ciaro in a town called Zietoun.<\/p>\nThe first apparition at Zeitoun was recorded that evening\u00a0 when a Muslim bus mechanic called Farouk Mohammed Atwa, who worked across the street from the church of Saint Demiana in Zeitoun, thought that the apparition was a woman attempting suicide by jumping from the structure. Two other men also noticed a white figure on the top of the church . The sighting was reported to the police.\u00a0 A crowd began to gather on the event site and the police attempted to disperse it. According to the police, the sighting was just a reflection of the light from the street lamps. However, the crowds viewed the sighting as a clear apparition of Saint Mary, and so the attempts by the police to disperse the crowd were unsuccessful. The event itself ended in few minutes, but within months millions of people bore witness to the extraordinary event of the miraculous presence of the Virgin Mary.<\/p>\n
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