Bush Urged to Raise Issue of Religious Freedom for Egyptian Copts

US Newswire reports today that the U.S. Copts Association has urged President Bush to raise the issue of Egyptian Christian human rights with the prime minister of Egypt when Bush meets him today. In a letter (full text) to President Bush and an ad in the Washington Times signed by Coptic leaders around the world the Association claimed that the Egyptian government endorses kidnapping and forced conversion of young Coptic women, and destruction of Christian villages and houses of worship.