Four-Day Protest in Egypt Ends with Clashes, Arrests

Authorities in Egypt arrested 34 people after more than a thousand Christians staged a round-the-clock sit-in at the Coptic Orthodox cathedral in Egypt's capital for four days.

By Kenneth Chan,

Authorities in Egypt arrested 34 people after more than a thousand Christians staged a round-the-clock sit-in at the Coptic Orthodox cathedral in Egypt's capital for four days. Since Sunday, demonstrators gathered to demand the release of the wife of a Coptic priest who they claim was abducted and forced to convert to Islam by Muslim extremists.

An Egyptian Coptic priest, center, negotiates with policemen outside the cathedral in the city's Abbasiya district, Cairo, Egypt, late Wednesday, Dec.8, 2004. More than a thousand Christians took over the Coptic Orthodox cathedral in Egypt's capital Wedne
An Egyptian Coptic priest, center, negotiates with policemen outside the cathedral in the city's Abbasiya district, Cairo, Egypt, late Wednesday, Dec.8, 2004. More than a thousand Christians took over the Coptic Orthodox cathedral in Egypt's capital Wedne

While Egypt's native Christian Copts

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