Egyptian Court Acquits Christians Charged With Defaming Islam

M&C reported yesterday that in Egypt, Christian activists Adel Fawzy Faltas and Peter Ezzat have been acquitted by a state security court of charges of threatening social peace by propagating anti-Islamic material. The charges stemmed from their distributing a book titled The Persecuted that focuses on the perceived persecution of Christian Copts. Earlier charges of converting a Muslim, Mohamed Ahmed Hegazy, to Christianity, were dropped for lack of evidence.