A month after Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi was sworn in as the president of Egypt, the Coptic Orthodox Church's fear has come true. The church's interim head said on August 4 that Christians were not fairly represented in the newly formed cabinet, and have been facing a rise in attacks, according to the Christian Post website.
"I will not congratulate the new prime minister on the formation of the government because it is unfair... this ministerial formation came unjust to Copts," Bishop Bakhomious said.
Bakhomious -- who became the interim head of the Coptic Orthodox Church after the death of Pope Shenouda III last March -- expressed unhappiness with the government two days after Morsi appointed his first cabinet with just one Christian in it.
Nadia Eskandar Zukhari, the minister for scientific research which many see as "semi-ministry," is not only the sole Copt in the cabinet, but only one of two women.
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