After Hanaa Abdu Kamel has decided to convert into Islam, she kidnapped her children and forced him to change their faith as well.
Magdi Attia, the Christian father, had pledged to Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Pope Tawadros II, and Interior Minister to help him get his children back.
Abram Louis, founder of the Association of victims of abduction and enforced disappearance, said he had already filed several complaints over the past three years, calling for restoring sessions of advice and guidance, in which the person who wants to convert may discuss the matter with a priest to make sure this is his free will and he is fully convinced with Islam.
Those sessions were canceled in 2004 after a crisis following the conversion of Wafaa Kostantin, priest’s wife, into Islam.