"We confirm our fundamental position of absolute condemnation of any terrorist attacks and once again state our support for resolute actions towards an uncompromising fight against terrorism taken by the Egyptian authorities", it added.
He sought to restore that confidence by imposing the state of emergency, declaring three days of mourning, deploying special forces to help police secure churches and other key installations, and ordering the formation of a new body called the "Supreme Council to Combat Terrorism and Fanaticism". "Many of them had blood on their white robes", she told The Associated Press.
CAIRO: Less than two hours after an explosion tore through the Mar Girgis Coptic Church in Tanta, a second blast struck St Mark Cathedral in Alexandria, on the Mediterranean coast, during the Palm Sunday service led by Coptic Patriarch Tawadros II.
Initial reports suggest that a man blew himself up at the entrance of the church, street-side, as the patriarch celebrated Mass at the altar inside.
He passed a female police officer talking to another woman, and entered a metal detector before an explosion engulfed the area.
As smiling children waved palm branches in my church, and countless others across our peaceful country Sunday, fellow Christians were again suffering in Egypt.
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The firing of Gordhan, who was widely considered an effective, honest steward of the economy, further alarmed many South Africans. Insiders who attended the meeting, which lasted several hours on Tuesday night, said the trio were "lambasted" for speaking out.
The timing of the attack raised the question of whether the bomber had sought to assassinate him.
Magdy George Youssef, a deacon at St. George's, said the church was nearly full when the blast occurred and threw him under a pew. Bombs exploded at two Coptic churches in the northern Egyptian cities of Tanta and Alexan.
"That should have been an alarm or a warning that this place is targeted", said 38-year-old Amira Maher.
Tveit said, "In the face of this brutality, the human family, all people of faith and of good will, must stand together to recommit to respecting and caring for one another, to protecting one another, and to preventing such violence".
"There is a complete government failure in taking the IS threat seriously".
"There is no doubt the Holy Father will maintain his offer to go to Egypt" on April 28 and 29, said official Monsignor Angelo Becciu. The meeting was attended by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Prime Minister as well as the Ministers of Defense and Military Production, Foreign Affairs, Interior, and Finance. He wrote on Twitter: 'So sad to hear of the terrorist attack in Egypt.
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