Father Sergious of #Coptic cathedral “The devil himself would be too ashamed to do such a thing” #churchbombing #Egypt pic.twitter.com/g8IMCRqpWS

— Nermien Riad (@NermienRiad) December 11, 2016

Lord have mercy:

A bomb ripped through a section reserved for women at Cairo’s main Coptic cathedral during Sunday morning Mass, killing at least 25 people and wounding 49, mostly women and children, Egyptian state media said.

The attack was the deadliest against Egypt’s Christian minority in years. Video from the blast site circulating on social media showed blood-smeared floors and shattered pews among the marble pillars at St. Mark’s Cathedral, the seat of Egypt’s Orthodox Christian church, where the blast occurred in a chapel adjacent to the main building.

As security officials arrived to secure the site, angry churchgoers gathered outside and hurled insults, accusing them of negligence.

“There was no security at the gate” one woman told reporters. “They were all having breakfast inside their van.”

A man asked: “You’re coming now after everything was destroyed?”

Take care watching that video. In it, it appears that young Coptic men are collecting bits and pieces of human remains for burial.

The Guardian reports:

Amal Louka, who works with a service for disabled people at the cathedral, said she was in a meeting in an adjacent church when she heard the explosion.

“We heard a very loud noise – it felt as if the church was falling down,” she said. “When we got to the scene, there was a lot of blood and severed body parts as well as many corpses on the floor. The explosion had hit the women’s area of the church, so most of the casualties were women.”

Cathedral worker Attiya Mahrous, who rushed to the chapel after he heard the blast, said: “I found bodies, many of them women, lying on the pews. It was a horrible scene. His clothes and hands were stained with blood and his hair matted with dust.

No claim of responsibility yet, but I’m betting that the culprits will not be Scottish Presbyterians. Just another day in the life of Christians in Egypt, suffering at the hands of Islamists. Note well that not all Muslims are Islamists. Also note this:

For Coptic Christians, an attack on Saint Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral is like an attack on the Vatican. #Egypt #Cairo

— Ian James Lee (@ianjameslee) December 11, 2016