IBeni Suef Prosecution listened to the testimony of Father Fānūs of Bayād al-‘Arab Church in Beni Suef Township. The family of the missing female student in al-Wāstá City of Beni Suef Governorate had “claimed” that they found papers at the house in their daughter’s desk with a telephone number beside Father Fanūs’s name.
The investigations, which were carried out with Reverend Fanūs, revealed that the number did not belong to him. He has two telephones, neither of which number corresponds to the one found on the paper of the missing student. According to the phone company Etisalat, the number doesn’t exist.
The church has sent two priests to the family of the missing students to help them find her. The father of the girl has said the Church is not behind the kidnapping of his daughter. He has been in touch with her twice, both before and after the parents went to the police. He added that he received an email that stated that she was married to a person name Ahmad, that she was still Muslim and that she would not change her religion. The girl’s family explains how they had never heard her talk about wanting to marry a man named Ahmad.
A security source revealed that the student had married a Christian who converted to Islam and changed his name to Ahmad. They now live in Cairo and she would return to her family after the situation calms down.
Security forces in Beni Suef are still surrounding the St. George Church in anticipation of further attacks (Author not mentioned, al-Sabāh, Mar. 5, p. 4). Read original text in Arabic
