From The Pittsburgh Tribune Review-Two downed electrical towers, two armored personnel carriers, and stacks of old tires form an improvised gate to this impoverished Upper Egypt city.
Graffiti on its buildings denounce the police as “thugs” and “dancing prostitutes.”
Islamist militants ruled over Delga's 120,000 people – a fourth of them Christians – for more than a month in 2013, before Egyptian security forces regained control.
Even today, a visit to one ravaged Christian church requires an armed escort by three truckloads of twitchy police and shotgun-toting local guards in ankle-length gowns.
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http://triblive.com/usworld/betsyhiel/7570943-74/church-christian-churches#axzz3PH3KjnhF
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