CAIRO: Egypt’s Copts, targets of an apparent church bombing north of Cairo last Sunday, are the Middle East’s largest Christian minority and one of the oldest.

Making up about 10 percent of Egypt’s population of 90 million, the Coptic Orthodox form the largest Christian denomination in the Muslim-majority country.

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