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• Gunmen kill 3 people outside Cairo church
• Egyptian gunmen kill three outside church in Cairo suburb
• Egyptian gunmen kill two outside church in Cairo suburb
• Gunmen kill 1, wound 10 outside Egyptian church
• Two Christian clerics killed on Kenyan coast
• Contrary to announcement, Israel PM not meeting pope
• Ex-Minn Archbishop Flynn resigns St. Thomas post

Gunmen kill 3 people outside Cairo church Posted: 20 Oct 2013 03:53 PM PDT Cairo (AFP) - Gunmen on a motorbike shot dead three people late Sunday, including an eight-year-old girl, as they fired on a group outside a Coptic Christian church in Cairo, Egypt's interior ministry said.

Egyptian gunmen kill three outside church in Cairo suburb Posted: 20 Oct 2013 02:53 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Gunmen on a motorcycle fired on Egyptian wedding guests outside a Coptic Christian church in a Cairo suburb on Sunday night, killing three people, security sources said. The masked assailants shot randomly at the people as they left the church, the sources said. It was not immediately clear if those killed were Christians, they said. State news agency MENA reported that one of the dead was an eight-year-old child. A Coptic priest at the wedding told Reuters he was inside the church when gunfire broke out. ...

Egyptian gunmen kill two outside church in Cairo suburb Posted: 20 Oct 2013 01:29 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Gunmen on a motorcycle fired on Egyptian wedding guests outside a Coptic Christian church in a Cairo suburb on Sunday night, killing two people and wounding seven, security sources said. The assailants shot randomly at the people as they left the church, the sources said. It was not immediately clear if the two people killed were Christians, they said. A Coptic priest at the wedding told Reuters he was inside the church when gunfire broke out. Thomas Daoud Ibrahim said he rushed outside to find a dead man, a dead woman, and "many injured". ...

Gunmen kill 1, wound 10 outside Egyptian church Posted: 20 Oct 2013 01:26 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Security officials in Egypt say gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on a group of people at a Christian church in Cairo, killing one woman and wounding 10.

Two Christian clerics killed on Kenyan coast Posted: 20 Oct 2013 12:46 PM PDT Mombasa (Kenya) (AFP) - Two Christian clerics on Kenya's coast were killed in separate attacks over the weekend, witnesses said Sunday, two weeks after the killing of a Muslim preacher sparked deadly riots in port city Mombasa.

Contrary to announcement, Israel PM not meeting pope Posted: 20 Oct 2013 10:08 AM PDT Jerusalem (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be meeting with Pope Francis in three days, a diplomatic source said Sunday, after the premier's office had previously said they would.

Ex-Minn Archbishop Flynn resigns St. Thomas post Posted: 19 Oct 2013 05:37 PM PDT MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The retired Archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Harry Flynn, has resigned as chair of the University of St. Thomas Board of Trustees, the school announced Saturday, becoming the second leader to quit the board of the St. Paul-based Roman Catholic institution this month amid fresh criticism over the handling of clergy sexual misconduct cases.

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