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Date of source: Sunday, September 12, 1999
Some Coptic leaders have asked that the church excommunication law be brought up before the Holy Council because Pope Shenouda, head of this council, had suspended 11 priests and forbidden prayers over the bodies of several important deceased.
Date of source: Saturday, September 4, 1999
Father Ibrahim Abdel Sayyed was known to be staunch critic of the Pope and his dictatorial way of running the affairs of the Church, but the majority of people were appalled by the refusal of the Orthodox Church to hold prayers for him when he died last week.
Date of source: Saturday, March 27, 1999
Sub-Titles: A Christian lawyer accuses the priest of deviating from Christianity because of an [newspaper] article.
A response to the view of a Coptic priest who rejects adoption because of its pagan, Byzantine origin: a first inside the Coptic Church, last week a lawyer filed a lawsuit demanding...
Date of source: Monday, March 1, 1999
Marriage among Christians in Egypt has become a time bomb that may blow up anytime to increase the disputes among Christian churches and create a crisis in the Coptic Orthodox Church. More than 44,000 Copts have obtained divorce decrees, but they are unable to get permissions for a second marriage...
Date of source: Friday, January 8, 1999
Pope Shenouda wants to see the boycotts on Iraq and Libya are lifted. He believes the Israeli conflict with the Arabs is a conflict of greed. He also said the problem of the Coptic endowments is close to a final solution, thanks to the government.
Date of source: Monday, June 29, 1998
The law governing employment in churches refer to it as a workplace and specifies that priests and other workers in the church are self employed.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 23, 1998
The holy council issued a decree that the period spend by a monk in the city should not exceed six consecutive years after which he should return to his monastery.
Date of source: Monday, March 23, 1998
The Pope prevents a priest form communion before he dies and banns prayers for him, because of his opposition to the church leadership.
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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.