Amid Massive Security, Egypt's Christians Protest Peacefully -- CNN
Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Hundreds of supporters of Egyptian Christians protesting a New Year's bombing that killed nearly two dozen of their members marched Tuesday night on a church in a Cairo suburb, where they were met by an equal number of security officers in riot gear.
For the first night since the car bomb, which detonated in front of a Coptic church in Alexandria, there were no reports of violence during the protests.
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