Why- during courtesy visits with State officials- Church ’officials refrain from raising questions of church grievances or problems that have been placed on hold by these same authorities? The problems of churches thus stretch out, unsolved, to span decades-in sonic cases extending over half-a-century-with no end in sight. A case in point is the church of Mar Girgis in Naj Beni-Khaled in Sohag, Upper Egypt. -