Christians Under Attack

Cairo - A man concealed behind niqab - a piece of cloth that some female Muslims cover their faces with in a show of piety - pretended to be a woman during a driving test in Cairo in an

Cairo, Egypt (AHN) - Two Coptic Christians were found dead in a village 240 miles south of Cairo, police said. They added that they were investigating the incident as possible sectarian violence in the same village that witnessed (pic 21 christians killed in in el kosheh 2001)

(ANSAmed) - CAIRO, OCTOBER 3 - Film scenes of marriage and divorce are outlawed in a new fatwa (religious edict) issued by Al-Azhar University - considered by

One of Egypt’s most prominent political dissidents said on Tuesday that foreign donor aid to Cairo should depend on U.S. ally Egypt granting greater political freedoms.

(charlotte.com)  In a 12-minute video posted on YouTube, an Egyptian man wearing a white shirt, khaki pants and rubber gloves explains in Arabic how to turn a toy boat into a bomb.  His name is Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, and last month he was arrested...

An Egyptian court has extended the jail term of two Christian human right activists who were arrested and imprisoned on charges of defamimg Islam last month, a member of a Christian group said on Wednesday.

Cairo - Police in Egypt arrested 28 people in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria after Muslim and Christian youths clashed in a row over a girl, police said on Saturday.

Fighting broke out late on Friday after Ahmed Abdel Hamid, a 22-year-old Muslim, claimed he saw a Muslim girl headed for a residential building with Sami Rustum, 22, a Christian in the Al-Asafra district, the policeman said, on condition of anonymity.

Abdel Hamid demanded to know where Rustum was taking the girl and a verbal exchange took place before both called on their friends to support them.

The fight, in which at least 20 Christians and 20 Muslims threw stones and hurled bottles at each other, left six lightly injured.

The Holy Virgin’s church at the mid-Delta town of Mehalla was the scene of Coptic demonstrations this week in the aftermath of the disappearance of 18-year-old Amal Zaki Nessim. Amal went to

Last February officials for the first time placed a figure on the number of disappearing Coptic women. The report of the National Council for Human Rights declared it had received 32 complaints of missing young Coptic women during the

Tribunal to decide in November whether converts to Islam can return to Christianity

Hearing adjourned indefinitely; Baha’i children also struggling for religious freedom.