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Persecuting Egypt's Christians (November 1998)
Egypt
November 1998 (1997, 1998)
in the past three years, the Egyptian media alone have reported 40 Christians killed by Muslim extremists for failing to pay protection money, and in 1997 there were 500 to 600 Christian girls forced to convert to Islam,

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1997 MARTYRS OF THE COPTIC CHURCH
Egypt
1997
in St. George Church at Fikriah when some 50 young people were gathered for their regular weekly youth meeting...men armed with machine guns burst into the church and started spraying the rows of worshippers right and left with bullets.