At least 25 were killed and more than 90 injured when a car bomb went off in front of the Coptic Orthodox Church of the Two Saints in Alexandria during a New Year's Eve Mass. Eyewitnesses said some radical Muslims, apparently in support of the attack, started stepping on body parts covered with newspapers. Other witnesses said antagonists chanted "Allah Akbar" while bodies were moved inside the church. A sticker with the words "the rest is coming" was featured on the back of the car filled with explosives, according to victims.

The Assyrian International News Agency reports the Coptic community in Egypt is protesting and calling for more protection in the wake of the attack. 

Protesters have also clashed with police in the aftermath of the terror attack.

Some analysts, such as John Adams, lament the lack of attention to both the historical and religious connection Coptic Christians maintain to Egypt. Adams argues that descriptions about Coptic Christianity are missing from most news reports along with information about the oppression of Egypt's Coptic minority, a religious minority encompassing roughly 10 percent of Egypt's 82 million population.