A protest surrounding the latest attacks on Coptic Christians in Egypt will be held at Martin Place in Sydney on Sunday.
Organisers, the Australian Coptic Movement Association, say they will be gathering “in solidarity with Copts in Egypt and to call for end to the violence and justice for Coptic Christians in Egypt.”
The move follows the attack on Christian mourners at St Mark’s Cathedral in Cairo on Sunday. Two people were killed and more than 90 injured when a mob attacked the mourners who were burying four Copts killed in violence only a day earlier.
The association says while Coptic Christians have been subject to mob violence and persecution for several decades, “these attacks have escalated and now occur in almost every province of Egypt from Alexandria in the North to Aswan in South”.
“Coptic Christians are being persecuted and the Egyptian state has failed to protect them,” it says in a statement.
The protest commences at 2.30pm.
