Dozens of supporters of ousted President Mohamed Mursi stormed the Virgin Mary Monastery located in a southern village in Upper Egypt’s Minya and broke its main gate on Wednesday, protesting against the security forces’ crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood’s protest camps in Cairo that began earlier today.

They also broke into a historic Coptic site while chanting for their deposed Islamist president and against Christians and their pope, the monastery’s Bishop Yoanes told Aswat Masriya.

Eyewitnesses from the village reported seeing assailants carrying petrol bombs headed to the monastery.

The Mursi loyalists have also attacked the Mar-Mina Church in Minya and torched one of its subordinate services buildings.