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Via Ahram Online:

Unidentified gunmen shot at the car transporting the General Bishop of Upper Egypt’s Minya governorate on Monday, reported Ahram’s Arabic website.

Bishop Makarious’ car was shot at while on its way to one of the churches of Abu Qurqas. The Bishop and the driver were both unharmed after the driver managed to speed away to escape the shooting.

In August, sixteen rights groups issued a joint statement expressing “grave concern regarding the increasing sectarian violence which has targeted Christians and their churches since the June 30 uprising,” which ousted president Morsi.

While there have been many attacks against churches reported since Morsi’s removal from power on 3 July, the most comprehensive wave of attacks was triggered by the dispersal of two main pro-Morsi sit-ins in Cairo and Giza on 14 August, with many of the attacks occurring in Minya in Upper Egypt, where almost 50 percent of the population is Coptic Christian.