The 15-year prison sentence given to a woman and her seven children last week by an Egyptian court for converting to Christianity is a forerunner of harsh prosecutions of Christians that will be occurring in Egypt in the future, due to its new radical Muslim Brotherhood government, the Religion Today website reports today (January 18, 2013).
Nadia Mohamed Ali -- who was raised as a Christian but converted to Islam when she married her husband 23 years ago -- was given the shocking sentence because she converted back to Christianity after he died, in order to obtain an inheritance.
When Egypt's new regime learned of her conversion to Christianity, Nadia and her seven children -- even the clerks who processed her new identity cards -- were all sentenced to prison.
Samuel Tadros of the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom said Christian conversions -- like Nadia's -- were common in the past, but Egypt's new Islamic-based constitution "is a real disaster in terms of religious freedom."
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