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President of the Republic Adly Mansūr, has stated that transitional justice has become a possibility in the country, after its rule for forty years by a regime based on personal ambition. 
A study conducted by Al-‘Ahrām Center for Political and Strategic Studies has found that while candidate for the presidency ‘Abd al-Fattāh al-Sīsī has captured the majority of the Coptic vote, his rival Hamdīn Sabahī remains more popular among younger Copts.
Dr. Yusrī al-‘Azbāwī, an expert at Al-‘Ahrām Center for Political and Strategic Studies, said that the armed forces and the Ministry of the Interior must focus not just on security in polling stations, but must have a clear plan to guard points of entry to villages and governorates in Upper Egypt,...
Dr. Muhammad Mukhtār, Minister of Endowments, has stated that a call to promote jihād in Egypt by Dr. ‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Birr, a prominent leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, was a breach of faith that merited legal action.
With the endorsement of the Grand Imām Ahmad al-Tayyib Shaykh of the Azhar, a new branch of ‘Bayt al-‘Ailah (a body related to the Azhar comprised of Christian and Muslim leaders and scholars), was inaugurated in the governorate of Sohag by several officials, among them Dr. ‘Abbās Shūmān, Deputy of...
A source described Bishop Jeremiah, who was the secretary of previous Pope Shenouda III, and is President of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center, as the ‘Bishop of the Muslim Brotherhood’, and as a man eager to establish connections with those in power, with figures such as former presidential...
The political role and astuteness of Father Bola, Bishop of Tanta, has been analyzed, as Pope Tawadros II insisted that he represent the Church at the Constituent Assembly (aslo known as the Committee of 50) to draft the new constitution.
The neutrality of Christian television channels has been questioned, as they had a great influence on the votes of Copts during the last presidential elections. Īhāb Sabahī, presenter of the show Fī al-Nūr on the CTVchannel , hosted every candidate except Muhammad Mursī, justifying this exclusion...
A source has claimed that the Committee for Citizenship is a machine to gather votes and to persuade Copts to support a particular political group or figure. Men of the church claimed it merely encouraged Copts to engage politically, without suggesting any affiliation. 
The three main influences on public opinion among Copts, the Committee for Citizenship, bishops, and Christian television channels, have been described has ‘three weapons used by the Egyptian Church to gather its people’s votes’.

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