Egypt court sentences one monk to death, another to life for abbot’s killing

An Egyptian court upheld a death sentence for one Coptic monk and life in prison for another over the killing of the abbot of a desert monastery in 2018, a judicial source said. In a case that shocked the Middle East’s largest religious minority, Bishop Epiphanius was found with a bleeding head wound after being bludgeoned to death in July 2018. Epiphanius was the abbot of the Saint Macarius monastery in the plains of Wadi al-Natrun, northwest…