The predicament of Egypt's Christian minority. (Cover Story)

From: The Christian Century | Date: July 14, 1993| Author: | Copyright information

POLITICAL VIOLENCE is menacing Egypt, the most populous state in the Arab world with 59 million people, as security forces battle armed militants bent on overthrowing the government and creating an Islamic state. The confrontation has had grim consequences for the Christian minority, most of whom follow the Coptic Orthodox Church headed by Pope Shenuda III. Copts and other Christians, who number at least 10 percent of the population, have been disproportionately targeted for attack. The conflict claimed 165 lives between March 1992 and the middle of June 1993. In addition to 65 ...

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