Rev. Rif’at Fikrī Sa’īd, the chairman of the Information & Publishing Council of the Coptic Evangelical Synod of the Nile, said his church has always been democratic and calls for equality and respect for human rights, adding the church has never directed its members to vote for any candidate in any elections.

“Evangelical Copts will go to the ballot stations in the runoff and will participate with all positive attitudes and high sense of national responsibility to vote for whoever they think is the best for the current stage of the nation’s history,” said Sa’īd. [Ahmad al-Sa’dāwī, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, May 28, p. 5] Read text in Arabic