CAIRO - More blood in Cairo because of religious tensions. A Coptic woman was killed in the violent clashes between Christians and Muslims erupted in Cairo tonight after three days of protests by Coptic for the burning of the church on Friday to Atfih. Hospital sources say that the victim is a woman.
Tension is very high. The scuffles broke out tonight in the poor neighborhood, a predominantly Christian, Moqattam, where there was the dead man, after thousands of Coptic demonstrators gathered for the third consecutive day in the forecourt of the public broadcasting, while a group of Muslims staged a protest in the government offices, pulling the ball back in case of a young Christian, married to a Coptic religious, which would disappear after he converted to Islam.
The protests have spread to other parts of the capital and some Egyptian Copts have blocked a road expressways where, witnesses said, were attacked by Muslims. The soldiers fired into the air. The Prime Minister Essam Sharaf, who already had gone on television yesterday to meet with protesters today tried to throw water on the fire, renewing its commitment with Copts and Muslims to seek solutions.
Ahmed el Tayyeb, the Grand Imam of Al Azhar, the most prestigious Sunni theological center, had condemned the burning of the church, after he met a Coptic Bishop. In what has become a small Coptic Tahrir, the protesters, many with wooden crosses put together by hand, have set up tents and blankets piled up because they do not intend to leave the square until their demands are realized.
Call for the reconstruction of the church, the return to their homes of Christian families fled the violence last Saturday and the release of a Coptic religious, in prison on charges of falsifying documents of a young Muslim became a Christian. 
Tension is very high. The scuffles broke out tonight in the poor neighborhood, a predominantly Christian, Moqattam, where there was the dead man, after thousands of Coptic demonstrators gathered for the third consecutive day in the forecourt of the public broadcasting, while a group of Muslims staged a protest in the government offices, pulling the ball back in case of a young Christian, married to a Coptic religious, which would disappear after he converted to Islam.
The protests have spread to other parts of the capital and some Egyptian Copts have blocked a road expressways where, witnesses said, were attacked by Muslims. The soldiers fired into the air. The Prime Minister Essam Sharaf, who already had gone on television yesterday to meet with protesters today tried to throw water on the fire, renewing its commitment with Copts and Muslims to seek solutions.
Ahmed el Tayyeb, the Grand Imam of Al Azhar, the most prestigious Sunni theological center, had condemned the burning of the church, after he met a Coptic Bishop. In what has become a small Coptic Tahrir, the protesters, many with wooden crosses put together by hand, have set up tents and blankets piled up because they do not intend to leave the square until their demands are realized.
Call for the reconstruction of the church, the return to their homes of Christian families fled the violence last Saturday and the release of a Coptic religious, in prison on charges of falsifying documents of a young Muslim became a Christian.
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