One person has reportedly been killed and 66 wounded when clashes erupted outside a Coptic cathedral in Cairo after funeral prayers were held for four Christians killed in sectarian violence. There are conflicting reports on how exactly the clashes erupted. AFP, citing witnesses, writes that mourners who were chanting against the ruling Muslim Brotherhood were pelted with stones as they left the church.... 

Sunday's rally began in the Shubra district of northern Cairo, then headed to the state television building along the Nile. At least 23 Egyptian Christians were killed last night as the country’s worst religious violence since February’s overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the former president, convulsed the capital Cairo. The city’s fabled Tahrir Square, where people power triumphed... 

Mohamed Ahmed Hussein was found guilty of pre-meditated murder. Egypt has sentenced a man to death for killing six Coptic Christians and a Muslim policeman in January 2010. Mohamed Ahmed Hussein was found guilty of shooting the group outside a midnight Mass for Coptic Christmas in Naga Hamady, southern Egypt. The attack was thought to be revenge for the alleged rape of a 12-year-old Muslim girl by... 

Pope Shenouda III, the head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox church, leads prayers at the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, early Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010. Three men in a car sprayed automatic gunfire into a crowd of churchgoers in southern Egyptian as they left a midnight Mass for Coptic Christmas, killing at least seven people in a drive-by shooting, the church bishop and security officials said. Egypt’s...