Gunmen kill 23 Christians in Egypt says news Masked gunmen attacked a group of Coptic Christians as they were driving to a monastery south of Cairo on Friday, killing 26 and wounding 26, the governor of Egypt's Minya province, Essam al-Bedaiwy, said.
The group was travelling in two busses and a truck through the province, which is home to a sizeable Christian minority, he said.
Eyewitnesses said the Copts were attacked as they were going to pray at the monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor in the western part of the province.
They said masked men stopped the vehicles on a road leading to the monastery and opened fire.
Coptic Christians, who make up about 10 per cent of Egypt's population of 92 million, have been the subject of a series of deadly attacks in recent months.
About 70 have been killed in bomb attacks on churches in the cities of Cairo, Alexandria and Tanta since December.
Those attacks were claimed by Islamic State. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Friday's attack
that is what the news says ..... and in another of Islamic heroes., the paper says
Taliban attack on Afghan base kills at least 15 soldiers ...Afghanistan
t least 15 Afghan soldiers were killed when Taliban fighters attacked their army base in the southern province of Kandahar, the defence ministry said Friday, in the second such assault this week.
The attack in Shah Wali Kot district late Thursday came just three days after 10 Afghan soldiers were killed when Taliban militants stormed another base in the same area.
Five dead after gun battle in Garhi Dewan Near Larkana ...Pakistan
Five people lost their lives, including two children that succumbed to their injuries on Friday, as a result of bullet injuries sustained during a heavy exchange of fire between two groups over the petty issue of children’s fight in Garhi Dewan village near Larkana on May 25.
The injured were taken to Chandka Medical College Hospital where on Friday, according to hospital sources, 11-year-old Babar and 10-year-old Kainat died.
That is straight shia -sunni brutal fight/problem in Land of pure
Bangladesh removes 'un-Islamic' statue after protestsBangladesh on Friday removed a controversial statue depicting a goddess of justice outside its Supreme Court that religious hardliners had deemed “un-Islamic."
Hardliners wanted the statue of the blindfolded, sari-clad woman holding scales — a Bangladeshi version of the Greek goddess of justice — to be replaced with a Quran.
Sculptor Mrinal Haque choked back tears as he oversaw the statue's removal after less than six months, saying it felt like “clearing a dead body.”
“Even my mother's death did not make me so grief-stricken,” Haque told AFP
Foreign fighters are among Islamist militants killed in a southern Philippine city in recent days, officials say.Six jihadists, including Indonesian and Malaysian citizens, were killed as the army continued its operation to drive the rebels out of the city of Marawi.
Attack helicopters and special forces have been deployed in the offensive.
It is a rare admission by the authorities that local jihadists are working with international groups.
Marawi is a mainly Muslim city in Lanao del Sur province on the southern island of Mindanao. The province is a stronghold for the Maute group, which has pledged allegiance to so-called Islamic State (IS).
and that is the news from that southern Philippine city Marawi
well Islamic heroes everywhere . There are only two alternatives to these heroes.... either they have to win or they have to go to Jannah in allah brothel house..
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