Date of source: Saturday, December 10, 2005
Father Filopātīr was punished by the church after he published an article in which he criticized the president and the ruling party.
Date of source: Friday, December 2, 2005
The Egyptian Federation for Human Rights has petitioned the pope to extenuate the ruling against Father Filopātīr Jamīl, a priest suspended for two years on charges of betraying the church.
Date of source: Saturday, December 3, 2005 to Friday, December 9, 2005
Father Filopātīr Jamīl was investigated over articles he wrote in the Theban Legion newspaper, as a result of which, he has been suspended for two years.
Date of source: Monday, December 5, 2005
Priests have declined to comment publicly on the church penalty of two years suspension frocking of Father Filopātīr, but admitted it was too harsh off the record.
Date of source: Monday, November 28, 2005
Father Filopātīr calls for lawyers and priests attending his trial to view him as a victim of repressed freedom of expression, but no one in the history of church trials has been acquitted.
Date of source: Friday, November 4, 2005
A discussion of the reaction of the Egyptian press to the events in Alexandria, where Muslims demonstrated against a play, produced by the Mar Girgis Church, that they considered offensive to Islam.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Father Basilius al-Maqārī exaggerated in AWR, 2005, week 16, art. 46, in my opinion, the parallel between Church clericalism and Islamism. Coptic clergy have been politically active but they do not seek power as Islamists do.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 7, 2005
Father Basilius of the Monastery of Makarius responds to the articles of Dr. John Watson [week21] and Amīr Mīlād [week 22] about the Wādī al-Rayyān, providing more details, showing the hierarchical structure of the church that does not accept individual monks going their own way.
Date of source: Friday, December 28, 2001
Christianity Today published a long article by Cornelis Hulsman about H.H. Pope Shenouda and Father Matta el-Meskeen, two major reformers in the contemporary Coptic Orthodox Church. The article is presented in this issue of the RNSAW with permission of Christianity Today. You will find here...
Date of source: Monday, May 21, 2001
Father Basilius says Sout al-Umma has made claims about the monastery which are not true.