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By Joseph Abrams

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/21/house-members-press-white-house-confront-egypt-forced-marriages/


A State Department spokesman said that violations of religious rights are covered in the annual reports of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. But the most recent report from the commission made no mention of forced marriages or forced conversions targeting Copts in Egypt.

The eight-page section of their report covering Egypt conveys the bleak conditions Coptic Christians face, noting that "the government has not taken sufficient steps to halt the repression of ... indigenous Coptic Orthodox Christians, or, in many cases, to punish those responsible for violence or other severe violations of religious freedom."
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