Pope Shenouda termed the relations with President Mubarak as "excellent", pointing to Mubarak's continuous and immediate response to all demands of the Egyptian Copts.

At a reception given by the Egyptian Plenipotentiary in New York in honour of His Holiness the Pope, and attended by the

members of the Egyptian community, Pope Shenouda expressed his regret and disapproval for accusing Al-Ahram chief editor Ibrahim Nafie of Anti-Semitism, and termed it as a direct aggression on the freedom of expression, and on a free writer who is the editor of one of the largest and wide-spread newspapers in the world.

Pope Shenouda declared that all challenges facing the Copts in Egypt are solved in a quite and proper manner, including the construction of churches, which is going on in the best possible way.

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