Counselor Manasá Thābit, a member of the committee that registers voters for the Papal elections of the 118th Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, announced that the committee will finish examining appeals by the end of August, 2012. After this, the Church will declare, in an official statement, the names of those who have the right to elect the new Pope (Jirjis Fikrī, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, August 26, p. 3). Read original text in Arabic.