Islamists in Upper Egypt Force Church to Relocate

Earlier this week Islamists staged a sit-in at the entrance of a Coptic Orthodox church in Kamadir, Upper Egypt. When the church's priest came to serve the Divine Liturgy this past Tuesday he was told by the hundreds of Muslims squatting on the parish's property that Copts were "not allowed" to pray there any more. The sit-in began when the local government approved urgent repairs to the church.

The sit-in was resolved through an agreement by which the parish agreed to build a new church 200 meters away from the new mosque recently built near the site of the old church. The new church is required not to look like a church and is to be half the height of the old one. More here.