Minya Governor, Essam al-Bedeiwi, intervened to contain a crisis that erupted Monday 12 February in al-Edwa, Minya, some 250km south of Cairo, when al-Edwa town council issued orders to demolish a memorial erected at the spot where 28 Copts had been martyred in a terror attack by Islamists in May 2017. The Copts were shot … Continue reading Minya Governor blocks demolition of memorial for Coptic martyrs