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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.

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Christians are Fleeing Egypt (1999)
Egypt
1999 (1950-1999)
Copts complain they must pay ''gezia,'' a kind of protection tax, which Islamists say is grounded in Koranic law. Copts who have resisted have been threatened with death. Some have been killed.