The Maspero Youth Union is staging a protest outside the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-'Abbāssīyah to call on acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius and members of the Millī (Laymen) Council to withdraw the representatives of the church from the constituent assembly that is writing a new constitution for Egypt.

The Union activists said the church's representatives have failed to protect the articles of the constitution, considering developments in the panel as "a putsch against the civil state". ['Abd Allāh Buhayrī, al-Misryūn, July 27, p. 5] Read original text in Arabic