Al-Misrīyun reports today that well-informed Church sources revealed that intensive contacts are running between the leaders of the Coptic Orthodox Church and Shī'ah leaders in Egypt to unify their future "political" positions.

The sources, further, said that last year, and soon after Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III passed away, legal advisor to the Coptic Orthodox Church Amīr Ramzī launched the so-called "Sūfī-Shiite-Coptic alliance" or better known as  "The Egyptian Coalition"  to face the Salafī stream in the formerly parliamentary elections (John 'Abd al-Malāk and Sarah Rashād, al-Misrīyun, Dec. 16, p. 1). Read original text in Arabic.