EGYPTIAN STUDENT TELLS OF FORCED CONVERSIONS TO ISLAM
Muslim students in Egypt are reportedly kidnapping Christian students in an effort to convert them to Islam. Details of a string of houses where
young Christians are kept against their will and forced to study the Koran were revealed to Voice of the Martyrs by a Coptic Christian who recently
escaped from one of the homes.
Identified by the ministry only as Mary, the young woman was befriended by two Muslim students while at university. One day they took Mary to a
home for Christian girls who convert to Islam where she found herself locked in when she tried to leave. Team members used threats and intimidation to
force her to renounce her faith.
After six weeks she won the trust of her captors, chanting from the Koran and saying Muslim prayers. After her
"conversion," she was given a key to the home and escaped at night two weeks later. She found her way to a Christian leader who helped reunite her with her family. Mary said there
are "many houses in Egypt just like this one which are used to carry out this plan of converting Christians."