The Pope confirmed that rumors about Christian girls being raped in the Muslims-owned shops are not true. He said, ‘If something happened to anyone, they had better come to me now and I will resolve it.’ We waited for two weeks, but no one approached us,’ the Pope said a lecture last Wednesday.” Pope Shenouda’s ruling out of the rumor’s validity perhaps came late, but this delay may have been beneficial because it came after a thorough examination of the issue and resulted in rooting out these rumors.