Minya attack: Christians were given opportunity to convert to Islam before being killed

May 30, 2017

The militants who attacked a bus of Coptic Christian pilgrims in Minya, Egypt, gave their victims a chance to convert to Islam and shot them after they refused, L’Osservatore Romano and other new agencies reported.

The reports were based on the testimony of various survivors of the attack, in which 28 were killed and 22 were injured.

 

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Further information:

• Uccisi in odio della fede (L’Osservatore Romano, p. 2)
• In Ramadan Massacre, Egyptian Christians Killed for Refusing to Renounce Their Faith in Jesus (Breitbart News)
• Massacre of Copts on pilgrimage in Egypt (CWN, 5/26)