The committee on the registration of voters participating in the election of a new pope in succession of Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III resumes its activities on Monday (May 7) after a three-day hiatus over the incidents in the central Cairo district of al-'Abbāssīyah.

"The committee has received the papers of six parishes in Cairo and will continue receiving other papers from other parishes in Cairo and Alexandria," the committee chairman, Bishop Marqus of Shubrā al-Khaymah. [Ashraf Sādiq, al-Ahrām, May 7, p. 3] Read original text in Arabic