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                 Egypt's Leaders Condemn Deadly Attack on Copts

   Egypt`s government and religious leaders have condemned an attack
   outside a Coptic church in Cairo that killed four people, including an
   eight-year-old girl -- the latest in a rising wave of assaults
   targeting the country`s Christian minority.
   Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi pledged that Sunday night`s deadly
   shooting would "not succeed in sowing divisions between the nation`s
   Muslims and Christians," calling it a "callous and criminal act" and
   vowing the perpetrators would be brought to justice.
   In the attack - among the deadliest in weeks - two masked gunmen on a
   motorcycle fired on wedding guests outside a Coptic church in a Cairo
   suburb.
   Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, the top cleric at Al-Azhar, the world`s primary
   seat of Sunni Islamic learning, also condemned the attack in a
   statement Monday, calling it "a criminal act that runs contrary to both
   religion and morals."
   The priest at the church where the attack took place said his community
   has had enough of the violence.
   "What is happening is targeting all of Egypt and not only the
   Christians. This is enough, people are getting sick and tired of this."
   Egyptian Christians, most of whom are Copts, have been targeted since
   former president Mohamad Morsi was swept from power by the army amid
   mass protests against his year-long rule.
   Islamists were enraged by the deadly crackdown that followed against
   pro-Morsi supporters and accused Coptic Christians of backing the coup
   that toppled Morsi, who hails from the Muslim Brotherhood and was
   Egypt`s first democratically elected president.
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