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Egypt’s Christians face fresh attacks and legal battles

Report: “Concern is growing for Christians in Egypt following another attack on the homes of Coptic Christians. And a legal battle is taking place in Egypt to overturn a court ruling which denies the right of citizens to change their religious identity on their ID cards.”
— “Former Muslims who have become Christians and who want to change the religion shown on their ID cards have been driven into hiding, along with their families and threatened with death.”
— “‘Many Muslim scholars issued a fatwa, saying I must be killed,’ says Mohammed Hegazy in the latest edition of World Update on the Persecuted Church by Release International.”
— “‘On television, people were saying if they meet me on the streets, they will kill me. Many fatwas have come up saying I must be killed.'”
— “Mohammed and his wife and daughter are now in hiding. His wife has been threatened with death because she married a convert to Christianity.”