State Department says it's 'concerned' by three-year sentence handed to Patrick Zaki for article recounting discrimination against Egypt's Coptic Christian minority
Nehru Tawfiq, 60, an Islamist with an extremist background, convicted of murdering 56-year-old priest Arsanious Wadid in sectarian attack; his lawyers say killing not deliberate
Prominent Sunni leader Sheikh Ahmad al-Tayyeb condemns attack, saying such acts 'might instigate religious wars'; Copts believed to be among world’s oldest Christian communities
Since her father's death, Huda Nasrallah, a Christian, has demanded an equal share of property left to her two brothers; Islamic inheritance laws favor male heirs
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