Egyptian churches will not be attending national dialogue

MENA 26/02/2013 The three Egyptian churches have excused themselves from the televised  national dialogue  session called for by President Mohamed Morsy for Tuesday. Bishop Andrea Zaki, head of the Coptic Evangelical Church, told the state news agency MENA that the Coptic Catholic, Orthodox and Evangelical Churches had decided not to attend the session, but were calling for holding another private session with the president to address their concerns about a number of constitutional articles. Zaki said that the suggestions and concerns presented by the three churches representatives during the previous dialogue sessions were not taken seriously by the presidency.