In a statement, the group for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in the Suez Governorate demanded that Christians should be committed to the teaching of Islam or else leave the country. According to the statement, the militants are saying, “Allah agrees with us in our battle against indecency, corruption and immorality and that the law of God should be applied […]”.

Meanwhile, tension continues in the neighborhood of al-Hadar in Alexandria in the aftermath of sectarian clashes after rumours surfaced linking a Christian man to a Muslim girl.

A Coptic facebook page quoted that in the background of current events, one of the people who came out of prison a few months ago, after serving 15 years for a drug-related incident, tried to take revenge on the person responsible for putting him in jail. The man accused the Coptic man, responsible for his imprisonment, for having a relationship with his son.  Coptic sources said that the accused man turned himself in three days ago. Coptic activists are also circulating news about the displacement of Copts from the region. They are accusing one of the Salafi Shaykhs of instigating the people to force Copts out of their homes (Rānīyah Nabīl, al-Sabāh, Apr. 2, p.1). Read original text in Arabic.