Egypt’s Coptic Christians fleeing country after Islamist takeover

By Richard Spencer , Alexandria 14/1/13 T ens of thousands of Egyptian Christians are leaving the country in the wake of  the Egyptian revolution and subsequent Islamist takeover of politics, priests  and community leaders say. Coptic Christian churches in the United States say they are having to expand to cope with new arrivals, as priests in cities like Cairo and Alexandria talk of a new climate of fear and uncertainty. “Most of our people are afraid,” Father Mina Adel, a priest at the Church of Two Saints in Alexandria said.