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Light streams through a high window inside the burned and looted Virgin Mary Church August 20, 2013 after a recent attack by Muslims in the village of Nazla, near el Fayoum, around a 100 kilometers South of Cairo, Egypt. Coptic Christian villagers report 2 churches and a monastery in the area came under attack by their Muslim neighbors on the same day as Egyptian security forces were moving to forcibly disperse the sit-in camp of the supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi.

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Light streams through a high window inside the burned and looted Virgin Mary Church August 20, 2013 after a recent attack by Muslims in the village of Nazla, near el Fayoum, around a 100 kilometers South of Cairo, Egypt. Coptic Christian villagers report 2 churches and a monastery in the area came under attack by their Muslim neighbors on the same day as Egyptian security forces were moving to forcibly disperse the sit-in camp of the supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi.