Religious freedom in Egypt unsteady despite Pence visit
Excerpt: Religious persecution in Egypt increased over the past year: Open Doors International said in its 2018 report that 128 Christians were killed in Egypt in 2017 and more than 200 others were driven out of their homes. The group’s World Watch List ranks Egypt as the 18th worst country for Christians to live in. In the highest casualty attacks, two church bombings last Easter killed 49 people. Another 29 people died in a bus attack as they traveled to a monastery in Upper Egypt. Former traffickers revealed some Muslim men run a network that kidnaps Coptic girls and marries them off to convert them to Islam. More than 15 girls suffered that fate last year, according to Open Doors.
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