The persecuted church.

Sad note. Although there have been some clashes, both violent and legal, Egypt has freedom of religion, and Christianity is legal there [most Christians there are Copts]. However, according to a missionary from the US who was there to help what they called the persecuted church and confirmed by a friend doing a human rights law internship, converting from Islam to Christianity is an offense punishable by death [vice versa is, of course, perfectly okay]. The wikipedia article on Copts, however, says that the Human Rights Watch wrote that converting to Christianity actually only causes problems for getting new identity papers.

[Maybe I should do more research on this than just hearing about it from a couple people and then checking wikipedia - does anyone know more about this?]