Burnt Orphanage Bares Scars of Rising Religious Tension in Egypt
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Gerges Abdou crouched behind a wall on the roof of the Soldiers of Christ orphanage, listening to the shattering glass and silently praying he wouldn’t be spotted by the assailants ransacking the building.
“Had they seen me, they would have thrown me off the roof or cut me into pieces,” the 58-year-old guard said in a hall in the children’s home in Minya, an Egyptian city about 165 miles (265 kilometers) south of Cairo. “They were filled with evil.”