As one believer in Egypt told me upon his release from prison for his faith, 'It has given rise to a kind of holy boldness for us. Members of unregistered house churches are being prosecuted. The government restricts expansion and even repair of Christian facilities by withholding building permits. Christians are routinely threatened, arrested, imprisoned and tortured because of their faith. The government appears to be conducting a campaign to eradicate all evidence of Christianity in the northern part of the country.
Church burning is common.
Christians are persecuted and imprisoned. Christians have been the target of trumped up charges of blasphemy. They are often the target of mobs and fundamentalist Muslims. A high court judge who had the courage to acquit Christians in a blasphemy case was assassinated. Saudi Muslim citizens who convert to Christianity are subject to the death penalty.