Placing Coptic Church Funds Under Egyptian State Control

Jeremy Reynalds 3/9/2012 Demands raised this week by Islamists in the Constituent Assembly, which is drafting the new Egyptian constitution, for placing the Church’s funds under state financial control were categorically rejected by church leaders and Copts at large. According to a story by Mary Abdelmassih for the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA), Anba Pakhomious, Acting Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, condemned the action of Salafist groups.