Men who dragged a 70-year-old woman through her village naked because her son was rumoured to be having an affair with a Muslim woman are acquitted by a court in Egypt

  • Soad Thabet, now 74, was paraded naked during the sectarian violence in 2016 
  • It was accompanied by the torching of homes and calls for Christian expulsions
  • A father and his two sons were cleared at retrial after earlier getting prison term 

Christian woman Soad Thabet, pictured, was attacked after her son was rumoured to have had an affair with a married Muslim woman

Three men who stripped and dragged an elderly Christian woman through an Egyptian village over rumours that her son was having an affair with a Muslim woman have been acquitted by a court.

Egypt: Church provides first conversion certificate

by Ethan Cole, Christian Post

For the first time ever, Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church issued a certificate of conversion to a believer from a Muslim background last week.

 

The move is unprecedented in a country where it is practically impossible for Muslims to legally change their religious status.