A state of tension remains in al-Wāstī City of Beni Suef after two weeks since the disappearance of a Muslim college student called Ranā Hātim al-Shāzlī. Ranā’s uncle told Al-Shurūq al-Jadīd that Ranā had a Christian friend called Marīyān who used to go with her to the church to buy some books. One time Ranā went to her university and never came back, her uncle relates. Her parents found papers about Christianity and a piece of paper that has Father Fanous (Fanūs)’s name and beside it a telephone number. Her uncle continues, “we went to see Father Fanūs of Virgin Mary Church in Dayr Bayād in Beni Suef and he said that he does not know anything about her as he meets hundreds of women daily. He [Father Fanūs] said that he will pray that she come back to us safely. “We staged a protest for three days from her disappearance and at the end of the last day she called and said ‘why are you blaming Christians, I married a man called Ahmad, an Engineer’ and she refused to tell us her place,” said Ranā’s uncle. He added that Father Angelous of al-Wāstī Church came to them [Ranā’s family] and expressed his solidarity and  invited them to search the church if they think that she is inside. “We could search with you anywhere you want and any time,” Father Angelous said (Hāzim al-Khūlī, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, Mar. 10, p. 2). Read original text in Arabic.