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2017 Minya bus attack, the Glossary

On 26 May 2017, masked gunmen opened fire on a convoy carrying Copts from Maghagha in Egypt's Minya Governorate to the Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor, killing at least 33 people and injuring 22 others.^[1]

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Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

Abd el-Fattah el-Sisi (born 19 November 1954) is an Egyptian politician and retired military officer who has been serving as the sixth and current president of Egypt since 2014.

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Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate.

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Alexandria

Alexandria (الإسكندرية; Ἀλεξάνδρεια, Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ - Rakoti or ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ) is the second largest city in Egypt and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast.

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Amaq News Agency

Amaq News Agency (translit) is a news outlet linked to the Islamic State (IS).

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Anne Hidalgo

Ana María "Anne" Hidalgo Aleu (born 19 June 1959) is a Spanish-French politician who has been the Mayor of Paris since 2014, the first woman to hold the office.

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Botroseya Church bombing

On 11 December 2016, a suicide bomber killed 29 people and injured 47 others at St. Peter and St. Paul's Church (commonly known as El-Botroseya Church), a chapel next to Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, seat of the Coptic Orthodox Pope, in Cairo's Abbasia district. 2017 Minya bus attack and Botroseya Church bombing are 21st-century mass murder in Egypt, ISIL terrorist incidents in Egypt and persecution of Copts by ISIL.

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Burj Khalifa

The Burj Khalifa (known as the Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration) is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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Cardinal Secretary of State

The Secretary of State of His Holiness (Latin: Secretarius Status Sanctitatis Suae, Segretario di Stato di Sua Santità), known as the Cardinal Secretary of State, presides over the Holy See's Secretariat of State, which is the oldest and most important dicastery of the Roman Curia.

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Christianity in Egypt

Christianity is the second largest religion in Egypt.

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Christians

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Coptic Orthodox Church

The Coptic Orthodox Church (lit), also known as the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria, is an Oriental Orthodox Christian church based in Egypt.

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Copts

Copts (niremənkhēmi; al-qibṭ) are a Christian ethnoreligious group indigenous to North Africa who have primarily inhabited the area of modern Egypt since antiquity.

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Derna, Libya

Derna (درنة) is a port city in eastern Libya.

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Donald Trump

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

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Dubai

Dubai (translit) is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the country's seven emirates.

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Eagle of Saladin

The Eagle of Saladin (translit), known in Egypt as the Egyptian Eagle (translit), and the Republican Eagle (translit), is a heraldic eagle that serves as the coat of arms of many countries; Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, and Yemen.

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Easter

Easter, also called Pascha (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary.

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower (Tour Eiffel) is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France.

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Four-wheel drive

A four-wheel drive, also called 4×4 ("four by four") or 4WD, is a two-axled vehicle drivetrain capable of providing torque to all of its wheels simultaneously.

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Hesham Ashmawy

Hesham Ali Ashmawy Mos'ad Ibrahim (هشامعلي عشماوي مسعد إبراهيم; 1978 – 4 March 2020) was a convicted terrorist who previously was an Egyptian Army officer, suspected by the government of having orchestrated and been involved in a number of terrorist attacks on security targets and state institutions, including the 2014 Farafra ambush and the 2015 assassination of Prosecutor general Hisham Barakat.

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Islamic State

The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist group and an unrecognised quasi-state.

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Islamic State – Sinai Province

The Islamic State – Sinai Province (IS-SP; الدولة الإسلامية – ولاية سيناء, al-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah – Wilayah Sīnāʼ) was a branch of the terrorist Islamist group Islamic State that was active in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Kosheh massacres

Twenty-one Coptic Christians were the victims of a massacre in Kosheh, Upper Egypt, located 450 kilometres south of Cairo, on Sunday, 2 January 2000. 2017 Minya bus attack and Kosheh massacres are massacres in Egypt and massacres of Christians.

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Libya

Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.

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Libyan National Army

The Libyan National Army (LNA; الجيش الوطني الليبي, al-jaysh al-waṭaniyy al-Lībii) or the Libyan Arab Army (LAA; الجيش العربي الليبي, al-Jaysh al-'Arabiyy al-Lībii) is a component of Libya's military forces which were nominally a unified national force under the command of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar when he was nominated to the role on 2 March 2015 by the House of Representatives, consisting at the time of a ground force, an air force and a navy.

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Maghagha

Maghagha (مغاغة) is a city in Egypt, located on the west bank of the Nile.

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Meshir

Meshir (Ⲙⲉϣⲓⲣ), also known as Mechir (Μεχίρ, Mekhír) and Amshir.

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Minya Governorate

Minya Governorate (محافظة المنيا) is one of the governorates of Upper Egypt.

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Minya, Egypt

MinyaAlso spelled el... or al......Menia,...Minia or...Menya.

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Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor

Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor (Arabic: دير الأنبا صموئيل المعترف), Dair al-Anba Ṣamū'īl al-mu'tarif " or Deir el-Qalamun (Arabic: دير القلمون) is an Egyptian monastery in the Western Desert.

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Nag Hammadi massacre

The Nag Hammadi massacre was a massacre of Coptic Christians carried out on the eve of 7 January 2010, in the Egyptian city of Nag Hammadi. 2017 Minya bus attack and Nag Hammadi massacre are 21st-century mass murder in Egypt and massacres in Egypt.

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Nile Delta

The Nile Delta (دلتا النيل, or simply الدلتا) is the delta formed in Lower Egypt where the Nile River spreads out and drains into the Mediterranean Sea.

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Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday is the Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter.

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Palm Sunday church bombings

On Palm Sunday, 9 April 2017, twin suicide bombings took place at St. 2017 Minya bus attack and Palm Sunday church bombings are 2017 murders in Egypt, 21st-century mass murder in Egypt, ISIL terrorist incidents in Egypt, Islamic terrorist incidents in 2017 and persecution of Copts by ISIL.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Persecution of Copts

The persecution of Copts and discrimination against Coptic Orthodox Christians are historic and widespread issues in Egypt.

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Pietro Parolin

Pietro Parolin OMRI (born 17 January 1955) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.

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Pope Francis

Pope Francis (Franciscus; Francesco; Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; 17 December 1936) is head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State.

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President of Egypt

The president of the Arab Republic of Egypt (رئيس جمهورية مصر العربية.) is the executive head of state of Egypt and the de facto appointee of the official head of government under the Egyptian Constitution of 2014.

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Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral (Alexandria)

Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral is a Coptic church in Alexandria, Egypt.

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Shahada

The Shahada (الشَّهَادَةُ;, 'the testimony'), also transliterated as Shahadah, is an Islamic oath and creed, and one of the Five Pillars of Islam and part of the Adhan.

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State of emergency

A state of emergency is a situation in which a government is empowered to put through policies that it would normally not be permitted to do, for the safety and protection of its citizens.

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Tanta

Tanta (طنطا) is a city in Egypt.

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Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo (translit,; translit), usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel.

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Timeline of terrorism in Egypt (2013–present)

In July 2013, at the same time as mass protests began against the 3 July coup d'état which deposed Mohamed Morsi, and in parallel with the escalation of the already ongoing jihadist insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula, pro-Muslim Brotherhood militants started violent attacks against policemen and soldiers in central and western Egypt.

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United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.

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Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the president of Russia.

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2011 Alexandria bombing

The 2011 Alexandria bombing was an attack on Coptic Christians in Alexandria, Egypt, on Saturday, 1 January 2011. 2017 Minya bus attack and 2011 Alexandria bombing are 21st-century mass murder in Egypt, massacres in Egypt and massacres of Christians.

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2011 Imbaba church attacks

The 2011 Imbaba church attacks were a series of attacks that took place in Egypt on 7 May 2011 against Coptic Christian churches in the poor working-class neighborhood of Imbaba in Giza, near Cairo. 2017 Minya bus attack and 2011 Imbaba church attacks are 21st-century mass murder in Egypt.

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2018 Minya bus attack

On 2 November 2018, masked gunmen opened fire on a group of Egyptian Christians travelling by bus through Minya. 2017 Minya bus attack and 2018 Minya bus attack are 21st-century mass murder in Egypt, Ambushes in Egypt, bus incidents in Egypt, ISIL terrorist incidents in Egypt, mass shootings in Egypt, massacres in Egypt, massacres of Christians, Minya Governorate and persecution of Copts by ISIL.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Minya_bus_attack

Also known as 2017 Minya attack, Martyrs of Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor, Martyrs of the monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor.

, 2011 Imbaba church attacks, 2018 Minya bus attack.

2017 Minya bus attack, the Glossary

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See also

2017 mass shootings in Africa

2017 murders in Egypt

2017 road incidents in Africa

21st-century mass murder in Egypt

Ambushes in Egypt

Bus incidents in Egypt

ISIL terrorist incidents in Egypt

Mass shootings in Egypt

Massacres in 2017

Massacres in Egypt

May 2017 crimes in Africa

May 2017 events in Egypt

Minya Governorate

Persecution of Copts by ISIL

Violence against men in Africa

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