Amidst the violent clashes following the ouster of Egyptian president Muhammad Morsi, a 39-year-old Coptic priest was killed in the Sinai Peninsula by gunmen while driving by on a motorbike last week, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported. Mina Aboud Sharween was shot dead in El Arish, the Northern Sinai's provincial capital.
In the past days, at least 42 people were killed on Monday as Islamist demonstrators enraged by the military overthrow of Morsi said the army opened fire during their morning prayers at the Cairo barracks where the deposed leader has been held, YNET News reported. The Muslim Brotherhood strongly criticized Coptic Pope Tawadros, a spiritual leader of Egypt's estimated 8 million Christians for supporting the military's removal of Morsi. The Coptic pope provoked criticism for attending the announcement by armed forces commander General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi that he was suspending the constitution.
Clashes between pro and anti-Morsi crowds have continued throughout Egypt since Morsi's ouster. His supporters have vowed to remain in the streets until he is reinstated. The Muslim Brotherhood called on Egyptians to continue protest those who "want to steal" the revolution.
51 people were reportedly killed and 435 were injured in shootings outside the Cairo headquarters of the Republican Guard, the Jerusalem Post reported.
"(The Freedom and Justice Party) calls on the great Egyptian people to rise up against those who want to steal their revolution with tanks and armored vehicles, even over the dead bodies of the people," the brotherhood's Facebook page read this week, according to news reports.
The military overthrew Morsi last Wednesday after mass nationwide demonstrations led by millions of activists demanded his resignation.
