Two Missing Christian Girls Need Your Prayers

One of the best things we can do, and also the most powerful thing we can do, is pray for our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.  Today, I want to ask you to pray for 14-year-old Nancy Magdy Fathy, and her 16-year old cousin Christine Ezzat Fathy who have recently disappeared and reportedly converted to Islam.

According to The Assyrian International News Agency, the two girls story was brought to light after they disappeared while they were on their way to church on June 12th.

Here's more from The Assyrian International News Agency:

Nearly two weeks after they disappeared, Nancy and Christine were found in Cairo wearing Burkas. They were incidentally stopped in the street by a police officer when he noticed that one of them had a cross tattooed on her wrist, as many Copts have. The girls told the policeman they converted to Islam and did not marry any Muslims sheikh as the newspapers said, but fearing the wrath of their parents, they sought shelter at the home of a Muslim man. He issued a report of the incident and let them go.

Nancy and Christine subsequently surrendered at a Cairo police station.

An investigation into their disappearance was launched, as their parents accused two Muslim brothers from a neighboring village of abducting them. They were also asked about the video clip which appeared on the Internet, taken in Tahrir Square, where Nancy and Christine allegedly converted to Islam.

According to the investigators, the Christian minors said they converted to Islam of their own free will, and refused to return to their families, and even applied for protection from them. The prosecution decided to put them in a state care home and provide protection for them, until the completion of the investigation. Authorities also wanted an Al-Azhar scholar to determine if they really believe in Islam.

This has angered their families, who said their girls are minors and should not be subjected to such procedures. Both families and the Egyptian Federation of Human Rights Organization protested on Saturday, June 25 in front of the office of the prosecutor general, and demanded for their children to be returned to them.

Click here for more of this story.  Please pray today for these girls, that the truth would be revealed and that they would be able to go back home and serve Christ if indeed, they really have been forced into this Muslim conversion.

Al Azhar and the Fatwa (religious edict) Committee denied that the two Coptic teenagers had converted to Islam, because they are still minors and have not yet reached 18 years of age, as is required by law.