Insight: After cathedral clash, Copts doubt future in Egypt

Ulf Laessing CAIRO 12/4/13 (Reuters) – When Egyptian Christian Kerollos Maher watched on television as petrol bombs and rocks rained on Cairo’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral he had only one thought – emigration. “ Egypt  is no longer my country,” said the 24-year-old  construction  worker, standing in the courtyard of the country’s largest cathedral where one Copt and one Muslim died in sectarian clashes this week.

Ulf Laessing CAIRO 12/4/13 (Reuters) – When Egyptian Christian Kerollos Maher watched on television as petrol bombs and rocks rained on Cairo’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral he had only one thought – emigration. “ Egypt  is no longer my country,” said the 24-year-old  construction  worker, standing in the courtyard of the country’s largest cathedral where one Copt and one Muslim died in sectarian clashes this week.

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