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Date of source: Monday, August 2, 2004
Sawt Al-Umma published an article titled “The exact salaries of priests” by Fadi Habashi on July 26, 2004. Habashi’s claims about the financial state of Coptic clergymen reveals his ignorance. I have several comments on this article.
Date of source: Monday, July 26, 2004
The living standards of priests in the past have been an average of the people, which accords well with the Christian value of humbleness. Today, the situation has completely changed. The reason for this change is probably the growing economic power of Copts living in Egypt and the expatriate Copts...
Date of source: Monday, December 27, 2004
Jesus Christ advised his followers not to love riches because he knew what money could do to the human soul. For Christ, love of money is the source of all evil. Yet, many men of the Church have disregarded this advice and embraced to a love of riches.
Date of source: Sunday, March 6, 2005
Earlier this month, writer and intellectual Tareq al-Bishri wrote in the Cairo weekly al – Osbou [al-Usbouc] that about a billion dollars find their way into the Coptic Church’s coffers every year. No one, he wrote, even remotely knows how these funds are spent, since the Church behaves as a...
Date of source: Monday, February 28, 2005
The North Cairo Court is now considering a dispute about a trade transaction viewed by many as strange because one of the parties to the legal dispute is Pope Shenouda III, the Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark. Clergy are not supposed to conduct such translations.
Date of source: Monday, February 21, 2005
Some expressed their desire that the Central Authority [for Public Mobilization and] Statistics (CAPMAS) supervise the funds of all churches and submit a report of each church to the People’s Assembly because the CAPMAS is affiliated to the Parliament. But in fact, the funds of the Church could not...
Date of source: Monday, February 7, 2005
What authority does the Central Auditing Agency (CAA) have over the various ecclesiastical institutions? It is known that the Azhar as well as its faculties and institutes are placed under the supervision of the CAA. All professional syndicates, chambers of commerce and industry are also considered...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 29, 2001
Pope Shenouda appointed the son of his nephew as an accountant in the Bishopric for Ecumenical and Social Services. Some people claimed that the pope appointed him in the Bishopric so he could later take over the post of the director of the Patriarchal office. This made them believe that there is...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 13, 2001
A deacon from Daqahlia commented on Al-Midan’s article "The emigrant Copts and the money of the church." He said the article was about the churches of the orthodox denomination, whose leader is Pope Shenouda but it was based on the opinion of a Protestant pastor. A thing that he considered not good...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 27, 2001
The priest of the Hanging Church said that the State gives no allocation to the Church, which is only funded by the donations of its children. He denied that emigrant Copts send lots of money to the Egyptian Church. The pastor of the Church of Ain Shams said that the financial affairs of the Church...
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Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.