v. Fr. Lūqā Asʿad, bishop of the Church of the Virgin Mary in Rashīd, Buḥayra governorate, has called on the Supreme Constitutional Court to decide on the lawsuit filed by the church acting on behalf of Pope Tawādrūs II, Bishop Bākhūmiyyūs, bishop of Buḥayra, Maṭrūḥ, and the five western cities, concerning the contradictory rulings on the seizure of the church and its partial demolition by Muḥammad Muṣṭafā Trānlī under the pretext of its purchase in 1991.

Father Lūqā called on the Constitutional Court to make a decision on the lawsuit filed on 14^th August 2018, pointing out the time taken to reach a conclusion to the conflict between the two opposing final rulings issued by the Administrative Court of Alexandria.