The priest, Mina Aboud Sharween, was attacked in the early afternoon while walking in the Masaeed area in El Arish.
The shooting in the coastal city was one of several attacks believed to be by Islamist insurgents that included firing at four military checkpoints in the region, the sources said.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
"If people can’t trust not only the executive branch but also don’t trust Congress, and don’t trust federal judges, to make sure that we’re abiding by the Constitution with due process and rule of law, then we’re going to have some problems here." - Barack Obama, June 7, 2013
"A Coptic Christian priest in Egypt's Northern Sinai has been shot dead, in what could be the first sectarian attack since the military overthrow of Islamist Mohammed Morsi."
A rather irrelevant marker as far as the genocide and persecution of Middle East Christians are concerned.
The savages called muslims have been systematically conducting their genocide and persecution of any non muslims throughout the region ever since this "Muslim Spring" has begun.
It takes a hate-cause to unite them and there's no cause greater than hating Christians and Jews. Why co-exist when you can drive them off the face of the earth?
As they conduct this pogrom [let's call it what it is] they find a "love" for each other....
Recall last week Catholic Bishop François Murad was beheaded to the cheers of Syrian muzzies, this was all being caught on camera for the terrorizing effect on others.
The bureaucracy: the new fourth branch of government. The bureaucracy is permanent, unaccountable, unelected and choking us like a weed. The bureaucrat exists, generating nothing of value, using perceived problems to justify his existence.