Concern Over Attacks on Middle East Christians Grows in Washington

Last August, the bloody crackdown on a Muslim Brotherhood protest camp in Cairo by Egyptian security forces drew international condemnation. But less attention was paid to the scores of Coptic churches set ablaze and destroyed in the days that followed. Paul Marshall of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom says it was “the worst pogrom on Christians in Egypt for about 700 years.” Across the Middle East, Christian minorities have been targeted in conflicts that ensued...

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