Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2006
The author writes that intellectual battles over Orthodox precepts have surfaced again between Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria and Father Matta al-Miskīn.
Date of source: Sunday, October 30, 2005
A press release from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Cairo concerning rumors around the demonstrations in central Cairo.
Rose al-Yousuf pays tribute to Father Matta al-Miskīn, spiritual father of the Anbā Maqqār Monastery.
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, April 6, 2004
Dr. Cornelis Hulsman, the expert on the Holy Family tradition in Egypt, arranged access for myself and my friend to the St. Macarius Monastery the only one of four monasteries still active since the time of the Desert Fathers in Wadi Natrun, that is closed to the public. What’s more, the visit...
Date of source: Friday, January 2, 2004
The article is a letter sent to Al-Musawwar by Samir Haleem Mansour, member of Truth Seekers Group in Canada. He comments on the interview the magazine had with Pope Shenouda on the occasion of his 80th birthday. He disagrees with the pope concerning his opinions about voting, Father Matta Al-...
Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2005
A great unfairness is being done towards Christ nowadays, as He has been wronged by both Matta al-Maskīn and His Holiness Pope Shenouda.
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: Wednesday, September 12, 2001
The state considered that the problems of the Copts were a source of headaches, preferably to be avoided. Some people claim that the state relaxed after Pope Shenouda was returned to his seat by a new appointment decree. They considered the pope, to be the representative of the Copts in all...
Date of source: Monday, April 2, 2001
Kamal Zakher Musa said that Pope Shenouda’s lecture, to a group of , was disjointed and lacked brightness and passion. He said he did not understand the need for lectures and thought the written word was more powerful. A student gave him two tapes of an earlier lecture one of which had incomplete...
Date of source: Sunday, April 1, 2001
In this article the author gives his own point of view about Christian fanaticism in Egypt. In the first half of the twentieth century, such fanaticism was reflected in two streams; a religious movement aiming to reform the church and another purely political one. In the second half of the...