Several houses belonging to local Christians were set on fire at a late hour on Tuesday in Egypt’s southern Minya province, the most recent of similar acts of sectarian violence against the religious minority, which erupted less than two weeks before the Coptic Orthodox Easter celebrations. “The attacks are believed to have been triggered by an attempt to build a new church in Al-Fawakher village in Minya met by the violent rejection of their Muslim neighbours,” a source inside Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church told The New Arab. “When religious fanatics failed to expel Christians from their home…