now el sisi became president of egypt following the summer of 2013 when mohammad morsi was overthrownny felt that he was their savior, that he would protect them and increase security. but we've seen a series of attacks on christians since then and many of egypt's coptic christians increasingly feel that the government simply has not done enough to protect them and today we saw the result of that. >> and we were mentioning of course the significance of today, not just sunday, palm sunday as we would. the last attack in december on a chapel adjoining an important church, cathedral in cairo, also happening on a sunday. this is maximum terror, maximum impact against the christian community in egypt. and we were discussing as well, ben, there is a lot of frustration among them now, that they're not being protected adequately enough, that they know they are a target and yet the bomb attacks keep happening. >> reporter: and i think part of the problem is that the security provided to the christians, to their churches, to their community centers, simply is inadequate. you've seen it, i've se

actually, the christian community has been targeted since the former muslim brotherhood president mohammad morsit comes on palm sunday, where security measures have supposedly been beefed up measures have supposedly been beefed up in the run—up to easter. it was clear in alexandria, where the officers stopped the suicide bomber, and in tanta, officers defused a bomb before it went off. there are more than a0 people dead and more than 100 injured, and the day is not through yet. definitely, the week as a number of sermons and masses coming up. there is anger on social media from egyptian social media users who are hitting out at the security services and interior ministry for their measures and wondering how they can put an end to this, especially since the country says it has been fighting terrorism for the last format years and the result today is not a very pleasant palm sunday, and quite a bloody one, actually. thank you very much. pope francis, who is due to visit egypt later this month, expressed his deepest condolences to all egyptians and to the head of the coptic church, saying he would

look, i think that, you know, it's certainly true that while mohammad morsi of the muslim brotherhood was president of egypt, it was a very brief team. it was a year. >> thank you, i think i said the islamic state. i meant the muslim brotherhood. thank you for correcting me. >> there were concerns among more secular egyptians who don't consider themselves islamists that the brotherhood would sort of bring about different expressions of islamic law or things like that. there definitely were concerns. now the brotherhood, through morsi was in power a very brief team. and frankly, they didn't have team to do any of that and we can only imagine what they would have done. what they did do, which senator graham indicated earlier was to overplay their home, and they did an until of undemocratic things. they sort of manhandles the egyptian judiciary and forced through a constitution that a lot of egyptians didn't agree with, right? so it's true. there was a lot of public opposition to morsi. but i think unfortunately, what the military did was use that to not only remove morsi but to end the