Evangelical Church condemns US bill on renovating Coptic churches in Egypt

Head of the Evangelical Church of Egypt Andrea Zaki slammed a bill introduced by a member of the US House of Representatives on renovating Coptic churches in Egypt. 

The bill demands the US Secretary of State to follow up the Egyptian government’s pledges on renovating the churches which it promised to repair after 2013 events, in which Muslim Brotherhood Rabaa El Adawiya and Nahda protest camps were dispersed.

In a statement, Zaki stressed the Egyptian churches’ rejection of any foreign interference in the Egyptian affairs.

The Egyptian government always supports Christians and renovated more than 90 per cent of the churches that had been burned and destroyed by extremists following the 2013 events, he added.

Zaki hailed President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and the Egyptian government for issuing a law on church building and renovation in Egypt.

Source: MENA