Another day, another excuse to kill Christians.

Via MEE:

A fresh wave of sectarian-inspired clashes have broken out in the Egyptian city of Minya, local media reported on Tuesday.

Violence in the religiously mixed city in Upper Egypt, some 200km south of Cairo, reportedly spread from the nearby Yaacoub village following a dispute. Around a dozen people have been arrested, various news agencies said.

According to privately owned ONA news agency, the local Muslim population took to the streets and pelted Christian houses with Molotov cocktails after hearing that the villages Coptic residents were planning on building a new church.

Local Coptic sources told ONA that the situation was now stable and that the community would still seek to build the church after it applied for the proper authorisation and received the adequate paperwork. The issue of church building has long been contentious with Copts requiring presidential permission to build new churches, restriction the Christian community has long tried to have lifted.