Tens of Muslim hooligans from Tarshūb village in Biba, Beni Suef governorate have attacked the houses and shops of Copts with stones and Molotov cocktails, which led to the destruction and torching of a house, shop, and an auto rickshaw owned by Copts. A number of extremists have expelled the Bishop of Mar Girgis Church from the village and attacked his car with stones and closed the church by force (Girgis Wahhīb, “Copts United”, Dec. 24, p. 5). Read original text in Arabic.