Kidnapping of Coptic Christians on the Rise

I feel horrible for not posting ANYTHING about my brethren in Christ being persecuted in Muslim-majority countries during Ramadan. In Egypt, our brethren in Christ are being kidnapped and it is only increasing:

06/14/2018 Egypt (Mission Network News) –  There has been a spike in kidnappings and disappearances of Christian women and girls in rural areas of Egypt and some cities.

“What seems to be happening is that a trafficking strategy that targets Coptic Christian young ladies and forces them to convert to Islam then sell them into either into domestic care in other international locations or into the sex trade,” Open Doors’ David Curry says.

Curry shares these kidnappings are being used as a tactic to demoralize the women and to humiliate the Christian community.

According to World Watch Monitor, there were seven kidnappings of Coptic Christian women in the month of April and an eighth one on May 2. The families of these women suspect they have been kidnapped by Muslims.

One of the girls who was kidnapped, Mirna Malak Shenouda, a 16-year-old Coptic Christian girl, escaped her kidnappers.

World Watch Monitor reported she was kidnapped by two women and a man in Aswan. She had been knocked out but awoke on a train. At one of the stops, she jumped off and called her parents.

However, Shenouda’s escape and rescue are rare.

Many families of the missing girls have turned to police after disappearances, but have received minimal to no help due to religious prejudices(Continue reading).

Thankful that one of the women escaped abduction from their kidnappers. I pray that more of my brethren in Christ escape them and the abductors surrender their lives to Christ as well.