the Egyption government done to curb sectarian violence regarding inter-religious marriage and conversions

Unfortunately, Egypt continues to experience bouts of interreligious sectarian conflict between Muslims and Copts. The three main reasons causing these occasional eruptions is interreligious marriage, church construction, and conversion, all of which are issues affecting both communities in Egypt (Bontrager, 2021). However, the Coptic Christian community has mostly been on the receiving end of serious violent attacks, and most of these have been conducted by radical Islamist groups (Bizzotto, 2016). In a video released in 2017, a group calling itself “ISIS Egypt” claimed responsibility for an attack on a church in Cairo and threatened to kill more Christians throughout Egypt (Kårtveit, 2017; Abdelaty, 2017). In response, the Egyptian government condemned the attacks and offered to renovate and rebuild the damaged churches. A recent report on religious freedom in Egypt (2017) noted that the Egyptian government has completed the reconstruction of 78 churches and other church-owned properties that were destroyed or damaged in mob violence since 2013. Additionally, Egyptian authorities have hunted down and arrested the alleged perpetrators of the attacks.