Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria

About 25 people were killed and hundreds wounded at a rally of Coptic Christians in Cairo.

David Kirkpatrick, Cairo bureau chief for The New York Times, and Youssef Sidhom, chief editor of Watani, the Copt newspaper, talk about the incident, and what it means as Egypt heads into its first democratic elections.

[waitingforcorrection: invalid GUID, no audio attached] 24 people died, and more than 200 were wounded in Egypt last night, after a violent clash ensued between Coptic Christian protesters and the military council ruling Egypt. This past weekend, President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen vaguely indicated he might step down, but then Sunday presented a plan […]

Authorities in Egypt today increased security around churches. The move follows clashes there between Christians and Muslims. The World’s Matthew Bell reports that the potential for sectarian violence there is greater now because of lack of security.

12 people died and hundreds were injured in sectarian clashes yesterday in Cairo. David Kirkpatrick, Foreign Correspondent for The New York Times, says the violence has slowly crept back into the lives of residents in Cairo.