Christians, joined by Muslims, have demonstrated together in the mixed working class district of Shubra in the capital Cairo to condemn the New Year's Eve car bomb attack on a Coptic church in the northern Egyptian city of Alexandria in which 21 people were killed.

Threats against Coptic churches have also been made in Europe.

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