Date of source: الثلاثاء, آب (اغسطس) 7, 2007
A huge throng of people gathered last Sunday at the St. Mark’s Church in Alexandria to attend Pope Shenouda’s last sermon before he traveled to the United States to receive medical treatment.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آب (اغسطس) 7, 2007
Max Michel fiercely attacks Pope Shenouda for granting actress Hālah Ṣidqī a license to remarry.
Date of source: الاثنين, آب (اغسطس) 6, 2007
Within Coptic circles, controversy has increased regarding the regulations for the election of a patriarch; specifically, whether a patriarch should be a monk or married and the eligibility of voters who participate in these patriarchal elections.
Date of source: الجمعة, آب (اغسطس) 3, 2007
In his weekly sermon, Pope Shenouda urged Copts not to eat pork for health reasons and said that banks paying interest to depositors is Ḥalāl.
Date of source: الأحد, آب (اغسطس) 5, 2007
Each time the reform issue is raised, clergymen announce their rejection and accuse advocates of reform of abusing the fundamentals of belief. They do not try to understand what the desired reform is and why it is being urged on them.
Date of source: الخميس, آب (اغسطس) 2, 2007
Father Theodosius al-Siryānī rejects the Vatican document and cites Pope Shenouda’s argument refuting the Catholic belief that Peter was the head of the church.
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 5, 2007
AWR’s press release about IGMF statements on Dr. Ḥamdī Zaqzūq resulted in a press conference attended by Egyptian media.
Comments on stories about forced conversions.
Date of source: الأحد, تموز (يوليو) 29, 2007
Majdī Khalīl sheds light on the difference between citizenship rights and the political activity of clergymen, and highlights the rarity of clergymen who are politically active.
Date of source: الجمعة, تموز (يوليو) 27, 2007
According to the author, Pope Shenouda avoided speaking about politics and is sufficed with discussing the questions of the attendants in his weekly lecture.
Date of source: الاثنين, تموز (يوليو) 30, 2007
Although leaders of the Coptic Orthodox Church have repeatedly declared that Pope Shenouda III is in a healthy condition, some news has revealed that he might be too sick to run the church. Thereby, the church’s five leading figures have established a committee to fulfill the pope’s tasks.