{"id":295666,"date":"2019-02-12T09:03:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T14:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=295666"},"modified":"2019-02-12T09:03:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T14:03:59","slug":"egypt-arrests-students-for-mocking-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2019\/02\/egypt-arrests-students-for-mocking-christianity\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Arrests Students for Mocking Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Here\u2019s news you don\u2019t hear about every day, via AFP:\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Egyptian authorities have arrested four students for mocking Christian rituals in an online video and ordered them to be kept in custody for four days, a judicial source said Monday.<\/p>\n

The university students aged between 19 and 24 were accused of being in \u201ccontempt of the Christian religion\u201d, the source said.<\/p>\n

If tried and found guilty they could face up to five years in prison.<\/p>\n

They were arrested last week and remanded in custody by the state prosecutor overnight Sunday.<\/p>\n

At the end of January they posted a video on YouTube in which they were allegedly seen mocking Coptic hymns and prayers.<\/p>\n

But they later removed the clip and posted an apology online.<\/p>\n

Copts, a Christian minority which accounts for 10% of Egypt\u2019s 98 million people, have repeatedly complained of marginalization in the mostly Muslim country.<\/p>\n

In recent years they have been targeted by Islamic State group jihadists.<\/p>\n

Trials for \u201ccontempt\u201d of Christianity are rare in Egypt where more frequently charges are levelled for contempt of Islam usually against liberal Muslim intellectuals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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