Posts Tagged ‘CAIRO’
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Egypt’s Christians, fearing instability, seek security elsewhere
They say cathedral attack, kidnappings indicate government neglectCairo, April 9 (World Watch Monitor) —
By James Martone
In downtown Cairo mid-March, the multicolored pharaoh-motif tablecloths and dishtowels were mis...
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Christian killed in attack on Coptic mourners in Egypt
Coptic Christians attending a funeral service here today for four Copts killed two days earlier in an anti-Christian rampage were in turn attacked themselves by at least 200 Muslim rioters. The incident, which started with a fe...
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2 Egyptian boys convicted of desecrating Koran, but released
A court in Egypt has quietly found two Coptic Christian boys guilty of “showing contempt for Islam” but only remanded them to the custody of their parents, an attorney for one of the children said.
Christians in Egypt blamed for voting by Islamists
The official results of the first round of the Egyptian presidential elections were announced today, and the run-off will be between Mohamed Morsy, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, and Air Marshal Ahmad Shafik, former Presiden...