{"id":34017,"date":"2017-04-19T17:18:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T17:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/deadly-attack-near-egypt-s-old-monastery\/"},"modified":"2017-04-19T17:18:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T17:18:14","slug":"deadly-attack-near-egypt-s-old-monastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/deadly-attack-near-egypt-s-old-monastery\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly attack near Egypt&#8217;s old monastery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{One policeman has been killed by gunmen who opened fire on a checkpoint near St Catherine&#8217;s monastery in Egypt&#8217;s south Sinai, officials say.}<\/p>\n<p>Another three police officers were injured in the attack several hundred metres from the church entrance.<\/p>\n<p>So-called Islamic State group said its fighters carried out the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Located at the foot of Mount Sinai, St Catherine&#8217;s is one of the oldest Christian monasteries in the world and a Unesco world heritage site.<\/p>\n<p>It is part of the Eastern Orthodox Church.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s attack comes just days after bombings at two Coptic Christian churches left 45 people dead.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks have raised security fears ahead of a visit to Cairo by Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt&#8217;s Christian minority makes up about 10% of the pre-dominantly Muslim country of 92 million people.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19462 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_95696145_25cb76af-fed0-4b00-a49f-4d2d6682082d.jpg\" alt=\"St Catherine&#039;s monastery is located at the foot of Mount Sinai\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:BBC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{One policeman has been killed by gunmen who opened fire on a checkpoint near St Catherine&#8217;s monastery in Egypt&#8217;s south Sinai, officials say.} Another three police officers were injured in the attack several hundred metres from the church entrance. So-called Islamic State group said its fighters carried out the attack. Located at the foot of [&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":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-34017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34017","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=34017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34017"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=34017"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=34017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}