Christians Under Attack

Bishop Bishoy, secretary of the Coptic Church's Holy Synod and the second highest authority in the church, caused a Muslim furor last week when the media published excerpts from a lecture he was due to give later to the clergy during the "Coptic Faith" Seminar held in Fayoum, south of Cairo on September 23

A newly released tape shows the first images of a group of foreign hostages working for a French energy company seized in Niger two weeks ago by an al-Qaeda affiliate, according to a group that monitors terrorism.