As Tensions Rise for Egypt's Christians, Officials Call Clashes Secular.

Autor: MICHAEL SLACKMAN; Mona el-Naggar contributed reporting from Cairo, Upper Egypt,, Nadim Audi from Cairo.
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Zdroj: New York Times. 8/2/2008, Vol. 157 Issue 54390, p5. 0p.
Abstrakt: A monastery was ransacked in January. In May, monks there were kidnapped, whipped and beaten and ordered to spit on the cross. Christian-owned jewelry stores were robbed over the summer. The rash of violence was so bad that one prominent Egyptian writer worried it had become ''open season'' on the nation's Christians. Does Egypt face a sectarian problem? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Databáze: Regional Business News