{"id":1665,"date":"2009-11-11T23:34:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T12:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2009-11-11T23:34:16","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T12:34:16","slug":"violence-to-christian-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2009\/11\/11\/violence-to-christian-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence to Christian women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/feeds\/prnewswire\/2009\/11\/10\/prnewswire200911100915PR_NEWS_USPR_____DC08473.html\">Pioneering Report on Disappearance, Forced Conversions and Forced Marriages of Egyptian\u00a0 &#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 \/PRNewswire-USNewswire\/ &#8212;<em> <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">The Disappearance, Forced Conversions and Forced Marriages of Coptic Christian Women in Egypt<\/span><\/strong> &#8211;<\/em> a pioneering report on human trafficking-was released today by <strong>Christian Solidarity International<\/strong> (CSI) and the <strong>Coptic Foundation for Human Rights<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Researched in Egypt by American anti-trafficking specialist <strong>Michele Clark<\/strong> and Egyptian women&#8217;s rights activist <strong>Nadia Ghaly<\/strong>, the report documents a criminal pattern involving deception, sexual violence, captivity, compulsion to convert to Islam and forced marriage. This disturbing phenomenon corresponds to internationally recognized definitions of human trafficking. . . .<\/p>\n<p>Egypt&#8217;s prestigious <strong><em>Al-Ahram Weekly<\/em><\/strong> recently broke a longstanding taboo by acknowledging that allegations of widespread conversion and forced marriage of Coptic girls to Muslim men have brought relations between the country&#8217;s Christian community and the Islamic authorities to a boiling point. (<strong><em>Al-Ahram Weekly On<\/em><\/strong><em>-line<\/em>, 3-9 September 2009, no. 963)<\/p>\n<p>Writing today to President <strong>Barack Obama<\/strong>, Dr. <strong>John Eibner<\/strong> of CSI urged the U.S. government &#8220;to encourage Egyptian President Mubarak to take credible measures to combat the trafficking of Christian women and girls.&#8221; Eibner furthermore stated &#8220;the unhindered and unpunished trafficking of Christian women and girls in Egypt is a litmus test for the true state of relations between Muslims and non-Muslim minorities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last June in Cairo, President Obama addressed the Muslim world, calling for a new beginning in relations with the United States, and the need to uphold the rights of religious minorities and the rights of women.<\/p>\n<p>The Clark-Ghaly report concludes by urging human rights institutions to undertake further research on this largely unexplored facet of human trafficking in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Contact <strong>Elliott Daniels<\/strong>, (202) 544 7778 or (919) 440 9729, <em><a href=\"mailto:elliott.daniels@csi-usa.org\">elliott.daniels@csi-usa.org<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>To view or download the full report visit <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csi-int.org\/\">www.csi-int.org<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE <strong>Christian Solidarity International<\/strong> (CSI)<\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright 2009 PR Newswire. All rights reserved and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/feeds\/prnewswire\/2009\/11\/10\/prnewswire200911100915PR_NEWS_USPR_____DC08473.html\">full PR Newswire article here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pioneering Report on Disappearance, Forced Conversions and Forced Marriages of Egyptian\u00a0 &#8230; WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 \/PRNewswire-USNewswire\/ &#8212; The Disappearance, Forced Conversions and Forced Marriages of Coptic Christian Women in Egypt &#8211; a pioneering report on human trafficking-was released today by &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2009\/11\/11\/violence-to-christian-women\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1673,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions\/1673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}