Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 11, 2006
Pope Shenouda warned Copts anew against visiting Jerusalem under Israeli
occupation.
Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 14, 2006
The
author focuses on the Coptic library of Mar Marqus which contains a
large number of rare manuscripts and books, as
well as Pope Shenouda’s decision to appoint 40 Coptic public
figures to the library’s board of
trustees.
Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 13, 2006
The
movie adaptation of Dan Brown’s controversial novel, The Da Vinci Code, will not
be seen in Egypt
when it is released worldwide on May 19, 2006, ‘Abd al-Latīf Jābir writes
in al-Sharq
al-Awsat of May 10, 2006. The controversy comes as the movie claims that Jesus married Mary
Magdalene...
Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 14, 2006
The author
criticizes statements made by intellectual Dr. Silīm al-
‘Awā, in which he emphasizes that
Copts are dependent on foreign support in solving their
problems and that Copts’ conditions are very much
better than those of Muslims.
Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 6, 2006 to الجمعة, آيار (مايو) 12, 2006
Rose al-Yousuf publishes the full text of the appeal made by Pope Shenouda III against a court ruling obliging him to grant permission to divorced Copts to remarry.
Date of source: الاثنين, آيار (مايو) 8, 2006
A discussion of the pope’s arguments concerning divorce in the Coptic Orthodox
Church, and the ways in which
Christian personal status issues have been handled in the past.
Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 7, 2006
Egyptian Christians call for changing the language of the Mass from Coptic into Arabic.
Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 7, 2006
The patriarch of Jerusalem shows his disagreement with the prohibition on Copts from
visiting
Jerusalem but Pope Shenouda maintains his stance.
Date of source: الجمعة, آيار (مايو) 5, 2006
In an interview with al-
Musawwar, Habīl Tawfīq
Sa‘īd, a self-styled ‘priest,’ speaks about the
independent Orthodox denomination of the
“Sons of St. Paul the apostle,” which he founded in 1982 and which then
included 3.5 million Coptic Orthodox
members from all over the world.
Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 7, 2006
Pope Shenouda
III of Alexandria has given orders to defrock two priests for violating the
church’s teachings.