Egyptian Coptic Christians find a quiet place to worship and succeed in Houston after so much strife back home
'This country gives you opportunity'
By GREGORY KATZ
Houston Chronicle Middle East Bureau

When Marise Saweris left Egypt for the United States, she was a 19-year-old newlywed who didn't speak English or have a college degree. She considered herself fortunate to find a job in the Merrill Lynch mailroom.

Today she is a senior marketer at the AIG insurance company in Houston. And that's not all. Her daughter is a pediatrician, her eldest son is a project manager and her youngest boy is getting ready for law school.

So it's no wonder that Saweris believes the future is bright for the growing number of Egyptian Copts who are moving to Houston and other parts of the United States to get free of Egypt's rising sectarian tensions and chronic economic woes. the rest