SEVERAL thousand Christians took over the compound of the Coptic Orthodox cathedral in Egypt's capital today, hurling stones at riot police in a protest over a woman who was allegedly forced to convert to Islam. The stones injured at least 30 people, including 21 police. Some policemen were seen wiping blood from their heads in the streets outside the compound in the city's Abbasiya district. Police sealed off the compound, parking 40 trucks around its walls, and closed adjacent roads. Protests began at the cathedral on Sunday as word spread that the wife of a Coptic priest in Abou al-Matameer,...
