Egyptian church calls on Copts to abandon Protest

16/5/2011 CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s Pope Shenouda, head of the Orthodox Coptic church, called on Christians to abandon a demonstration against attacks on their community after a clash overnight left 78 wounded. Christians have been gathered for more than a week in front of the state television building to call for equal rights in Muslim-majority Egypt and to demand that all perpetrators of crimes against their community be held to account