On June 13, a court in Cairo rejected Maher El-Gohary's attempt to change his religious status on his identification card from Muslim to Christian, according to a June 16 report from Compass Direct. He has been attacked on the street, subjected to death threats and driven into hiding as a result of opening his case 10 months ago (for more, click here). In April, the Coptic Church granted El-Gohary a conversion certificate, making him the first Egyptian convert from Islam to be publically accepted by the church in this way.

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