CAIRO, November 15 (Compass Direct News) – Sick of hiding in a secret apartment in Cairo, Mohammed Ahmed Hegazy risked his life to shop for groceries late one night last week, a cap pulled low over his face.
The Egyptian convert from Islam to Christianity does not normally chance being recognized in public by running errands for himself. Death threats forced Hegazy into hiding in August after he made an unprecedented legal bid to have his national ID card changed to note his conversion.
A court in the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
In Hiding, Egyptian Convert Continues Fight for Rights
Mohammed Hegazy battles for religious freedom as HRW report slams country’s abuses.
by Peter Lamprecht
CAIRO, November 15 (Compass Direct News) – Sick of hiding in a secret apartment in Cairo, Mohammed Ahmed Hegazy risked his life to shop for groceries late one night last week, a cap pulled low over his face.
CAIRO, Egypt: Egypt must change its policy of not allowing converts from Islam and members of the Bahai faith to register their religion in official documents, two human rights groups said Monday.
Egypt Jails More Christian Activists from Rights Group
Like colleagues just released, MECA workers accused of ‘defaming Islam.’
by Peter Lamprecht
CAIRO, November 12 (Compass Direct News) – Just days after two Christian activists from a human rights group were released from jail, Egyptian authorities took three of their colleagues into police custody over the weekend.
Arrest of two new members of the Middle East Christians Association in Egypt
MECA
In the first hours of this morning November 10th, 2007 at 4:00 am two new members of our organization "Middle East Christians Association" were arrested in Egypt, Mr. Wagih Yaakoob the official spokesman of our association and Mr Victor a member.
By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN Staff Reporter of the Sun November 7, 2007
The rivalry and violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims isn't just limited to Iraq. It is increasingly found in one place presumed shut off from the influence of faraway sectarian politics: New York's state prisons.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has met Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican - the first audience by the head of the Roman Catholic Church with a Saudi monarch.
The Vatican described the private meeting as "warm" and said the two men discussed the presence and hard work of Christians in Saudi Arabia.
The Conservative government revived a controversy focused largely on veiled Muslim women by announcing plans to legally require all voters to show their face before casting a ballot in a federal election.
Cairo, October 22 (Advocates For The Persecuted) – The Egyptian government has issued a summons to six people involved in the one-time publication of a magazine, “Egypt First,” to appear in court for questioning on October 23.
Ramzi Yousef, Al-Qaeda terrorist 'converts to Christianity'
THE mastermind of the first terrorist attack on New York's World Trade Centre claims to have converted from Islam to Christianity.
Ramzi Yousef, a self-proclaimed Muslim extremist with past links to al-Qaeda, plotted with others to blow up the twin towers in lower Manhattan. Six people died in the February 26, 1993, bombing.
Bishoy “formerly Mohamed Hegazi” flat contents in Cairo is smashed and burnt down.
Bishoy “formerly Mohamed Hegazi” the convert to Christianity with his wife now in hiding in Cairo were informed by friends that their flat contents was smashed and it’s contents burnt down in the middle of the street on 11 October.
Mohammed Hegazy battles for religious freedom as HRW report slams country’s abuses.
Mohammed Hegazy battles for religious freedom as HRW report slams country’s abuses.
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Harper government bill would force citizens to bare their faces to vote
