Hundreds of Christians demonstrate on Cairo's edge

By Hamza Hendawi
Associated Press
January 12, 2011

 CAIRO—Hundreds of Christians demonstrated late Wednesday near a large Cairo slum, blocking a major highway and clashing with police following the shooting death of a Christian man the day before, said a security official.

The demonstrators were protesting the treatment of Christians in the country in the wake of the Tuesday's shooting and a New Year's Day suicide bombing of a church in the port city of Alexandria, which killed 21 worshippers.

The bombing prompted three days of riots by Christians and now the recent shooting is threatening to set off a new round of demonstrations by the disaffected minority which makes up 10 percent of Egypt's 80 million. the rest