Little boy who was abandoned in an Egyptian church is finally back with his foster parents after a yearlong battle.
— It started as a family feud over a Cairo apartment, but descended into a national drama carried across Egypt's television airwaves. At the center of the saga is a little boy who was dragged through a custody battle framed by Egypt's unique rules on adoption, fostering and faith.
A file photo provided to CBS News by the"Copts United" organization shows Amal Ibrahim and her husband Farouk Fawzi Boulos holding the baby boy they fostered, after his baptism at a Coptic Church in Cairo.Four years later, the husband's niece, angry with her uncle over ownership of a home in Cairo, went to the police and told them that her uncle had kidnaped the boy. Crucially, she also said the boy was born to Muslim parents.
"It is like he is in jail in the orphanage," Amal Ibrahim, the foster mother, told CBS News on Tuesday."I have always had big hope in God… I trusted that God would reveal the truth. He is my son." The story swept across Egypt, and many people sympathized with the couple. They appeared regularly on TV and gained the support of prominent Egyptian writer and poet Fatima Naoot.
"One of them wants the boy and the other doesn't. That's a huge difference." Naoot told CBS News."The biological mother is not mother enough." Given the influence Al-Azhar holds with Egyptian authorities, the foster couple found new reason to hope, and many believed the boy would soon be returned to them. The niece who initially reported the couple to the police appeared in a video saying she knew who the real biological mother was, claiming it was one of her cousins. The drama continued to play out on TV shows across Egypt last week, with new details and characters emerging all the time.
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