Libyan security officials arrested almost 50 more foreign Christians this week in Benghazi.
Agence France-Presse reports that 48 Egyptian Christians who worked as traders in a city marketplace are accused of attempting to evangelize Muslims, but were arrested on charges of illegal immigration.
The Egyptians "were found in possession of a quantity of Bibles, texts encouraging conversion to Christianity, and images of Christ and the late Pope Shenuda of Egypt's Coptic Christians, none of which were for 'personal use,'" a security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Alleged photos and a video (embedded below) of the detainees were posted by activists. Bishop Pachomios, the Coptic archbishop of Libya, told Egyptian newspaper Ahram that "it doesn't make sense that as many as 100 Egyptian Copts had decided to engage in proselytizing activities in another country." Read more
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