Acting patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church held a series of meetings marked by confidentiality with some bishops of the Holy Synod to reach a guiding list of some presidential candidates to agree on one of them to be backed by the church in the forthcoming elections.
The church has set some standards in a candidate’s platform, including his emphasis on the principles of citizenship, respect for minorities’ rights and understanding for the inevitability of passing a unified law on construction of houses of worship and person status for non-Muslims.
Citizenship committees in churches are waiting for a signal from Bishop Bola, the chairman of the clerical council and the committees, to embark on propagation for a church-backed candidate in Coptic circles. [Jamāl George, al-Fajr, May 10, p. 8] Read original text in Arabic
