{"id":31062,"date":"2016-12-14T01:45:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T01:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/cairo-cathedral-bombing-is-claims-responsibility\/"},"modified":"2016-12-14T01:44:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T01:44:47","slug":"cairo-cathedral-bombing-is-claims-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/cairo-cathedral-bombing-is-claims-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Cairo cathedral bombing: IS claims responsibility for attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{So-called Islamic State say it was behind a bomb attack on a church in Cairo on Sunday in which at least 25 people were killed.}<\/p>\n<p>One of its fighters carried out the suicide attack on the Coptic Christian cathedral, the group said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi had earlier named the attacker as Shafik Mahmoud Mohamed Mostafa, 22.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sisi said the attack caused &#8220;pain to all Egyptians&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>IS named the attacker as Abu Abdallah al-Masri.<\/p>\n<p>President Sisi used his address at a service for victims on Monday to urge the government to amend the country&#8217;s terrorism laws, which he said were &#8220;restricting the judicial system&#8221; in its battle to prevent such attacks.<\/p>\n<p>He also declared three days of national mourning for the victims of the blast.<\/p>\n<p>The Christian minority in Egypt has frequently been targeted by Islamist militants.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt has seen a wave of attacks by militants since 2013, when the military overthrew President Mohammed Morsi, an elected leader who backed the Muslim Brotherhood, and launched a crackdown against Islamists.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Mr Morsi&#8217;s supporters blamed Christians for supporting the overthrow.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17028 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_92922814_hi036840204.jpg\" alt=\"The force of Sunday&#039;s blast could clearly be seen\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{So-called Islamic State say it was behind a bomb attack on a church in Cairo on Sunday in which at least 25 people were killed.} One of its fighters carried out the suicide attack on the Coptic Christian cathedral, the group said in a statement. Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi had earlier named the attacker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-31062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31062"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=31062"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=31062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}