Christian Today | 050918
A young Coptic Christian woman who had been married for two weeks has been missing since disappearing from her school on May 2, sparking fears that she may have been kidnapped.
The woman’s disappearance brings to eight the number of Coptic women in Egypt who have gone missing since April this year, according to research by World Watch Monitor (WWM).
Vivian Adel Youssef, 18, from the village of Dafsh in Minya Governorate, married her cousin Hanna Emad on April 19 and moved to his village in Minya. The husband told WWM they had been engaged for two years.
On May 2, Emad drove Vivian to her secondary school (for 16-18 year-old students) in the city of Samalout, so that she could prepare for a forthcoming exam, while Emad left to go shopping and arranged to pick her up later.
He said: ‘After I finished my shopping, I called Vivian and asked her to wait for me in front of the school. When I reached the school, I didn’t find her there. Her mobile phone was switched off. I searched for her everywhere – in her school, in the nearby streets, in the hospitals of Samalout – but I didn’t find her. I checked with her relatives and friends but none of them saw her that day’