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THE colorful but solemn ceremony at the Cairo cathedral of the troubled minority reflected none of the tensions outside. It was the end of a complicated process that began when the church's charismatic leader for four decades, Pope Shenouda III, died in March at the age of 88.

WITH Islamist groups expected to do well in Egypt's parliamentary elections, many Coptic Christians are concerned that their limited rights will come under greater threat.

SEVERAL children of Coptic Christians were injured and nearly two dozen minors detained by the police when Egyptian security forces opened fire on a group that protested authorities’ decision to halt the construction of a church on Dec 9.

One of the most noteworthy trends concerns the “shocking reality of persecution against women…. In many places, they experience a ‘double persecution’— one for being a Christian and one for being a woman.

Some of the worst persecution of Christians occurs in countries where they are isolated and which are largely closed off to outside research, the report said, countries like North Korea, Eritrea, Somalia, and Yemen.

A bomb explosion in the Coptic Christian cathedral complex in the Egyptian capital Cairo has killed at least 25 people, officials told the BBC.

"Jesus Christ came as a man of peace and as a follower of Christ. I follow him and I want to emulate Him. But the followers of Islam are emulating the prophet Muhammed, and that's what you're seeing carried out," he said.

"This filthy blood is what awaits you, in revenge for Camelia and her sisters," said a caption on the video. The video ends with an image of the Christians' blood flowing in the Mediterranean Sea.

EGYPTIAN security officials say gunmen have killed two policemen who were guarding a Coptic Christian church south of Cairo.

CHRISTIANITY began in the East, not the West, yet today Christians in the East are enduring an all-out-assault by Islamic terrorists, while Christians in the West live their lives largely oblivious to it all. This has to change.