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LOOK: Garbage City Feels Elections Fever

AP | KHALIL HAMRA | Posted 05.22.2012 | World
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CAIRO -- Election fever has even come to Cairo's Garbage City, the sprawling neighborhood built on – and living from – the waste of the Eg...

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Egypt's Christians Celebrate Christmas Amid Fears

AP | SARAH EL DEEB | Posted 03.08.2012 | Religion
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CAIRO — Egypt's Christians on Saturday celebrated their first Christmas since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, amid tight security and a d...

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WATCH: Persecuted Coptic Christians Speak

Posted 11.22.2011 | Religion
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Egyptians don't have it easy. But Copts, the Christian minority in Egypt, have it worse. In the last month, Coptic Christians were attacked while marc...

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Getting Away With It: Egypt's Religious Minorities Need The Rule Of Law

Kurt J. Werthmuller | Posted 01.17.2012 | Religion
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Kurt J. Werthmuller

It is still unclear how Egyptian legislation under increasingly Islamist influence might treat the Copts and other religious minorities, but it is an increasingly grim outlook.

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Egypt's Copts Fear Empowerment Of Islamist Fundamentalists

AP | By MAGGIE MICHAEL | Posted 12.10.2011 | World
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CAIRO -- Egypt's Coptic Christians have long felt like second-class citizens in their own country. Now many fear that the power vacuum left after the...

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Egypt's Coptic Christians Under Siege

AP | By MAGGIE MICHAEL | Posted 12.10.2011 | Religion
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By MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press CAIRO -- Egypt's Coptic Christians have long felt like second-class citizens in their own country. Now many ...

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