Egypt’s Evangelical Church has firmly rejected any association with Christian Zionism, stressing that all Evangelical denominations operating in the country are independent of the political-religious movement and do not support it in any form. In televised remarks this week, Rev. André Zaki, head of Egypt’s Evangelical community and president of the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo, said on 25 December that none of the 19 Evangelical denominations in Egypt have links to Christian Zionism, describing it as a political current rather than a genuine theological doctrine. Speaking on the programme Nazra (A Look) on Sada El-Balad TV with Hamdy Rizk, Zaki explained that Evangelical churches globally generally fall within two theological traditions: Covenant Theology and Dispensational Theology. He noted that the majority of Evangelical churches worldwide, alongside Catholic and Orthodox churches, adhere to Covenant Theology, which holds that Old Testament prophecies were fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ. According to this view, Zaki said, the modern State of Israel is regarded as a political entity with no theological connection to biblical prophecy. By contrast, Dispensational Theology believes in distinct divine plans for the Church and Israel, including future prophetic…
