Archpriest Philopater Jamīl of the Virgin Mary church in Faysal district, said that the church would not direct the people to vote for someone in particular in the presidential elections.

Father Ikrām Lam’ī, the spokesperson of the Coptic Evangelical Church, and Father Rafīq Greish, Director of the press office of the Coptic Catholic Church, said that the church would leave the people to freely elect their favorite cnadidates in the presidential elections without any interference.[Shādiah Yūsuf, al-Ahrām, March 25, 2012, p. 4] Read original text in Arabic