Egypt: trust after torture

Morning Star News  |  World
Date posted:  1 Mar 2019
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Egypt: trust after torture

Cairo skyline | photo: iStock

A Christian mother from Sudan who had been tortured for her faith, had deep cause for fear in the Autumn when her Muslim brother went to her church in Cairo, Egypt with a photo of her husband and asked members if they knew his whereabouts.

Muslim extremists from Sudan had kidnapped and tortured her less than two years earlier in Cairo, and they threatened to kill her husband and daughter if she refused to return to Islam.

The 42-year-old, Ebtehaj Alsanosi Altejani Mostafa, was tied to a chair in a darkened room when her abductors gave her that ultimatum.

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