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Date of source: Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Dr Nabīl Lūqā Bibāwī accuses Coptic intellectuals who oppose the policies of
Pope Shenouda III
and leaders of the Coptic Orthodox Church for trying to garner fame in the media by
presenting themselves as reformists of
the church.
Date of source:
After the big fuss made about a conference entitled, ‘Laymen
and the Church,’ the conference sessions were completed and
recommendations were announced. The following
lines shed light on the conference sessions, on its final recommendations and
on the aroused echoes.
Date of source: Sunday, November 12, 2006
The author discusses the upcoming seminar initiated by Kamāl Zākhir Mūsá under the auspices of the Egyptian Society for Enlightenment, which will discuss topics such as Copts and citizenship; the relationship between clergy and laymen; laymen participation in church affairs; church trials and the...
Date of source:
Egyptian Coptic laymen organize a conference entitled, ‘A Laymen’s Look at the Problems
of the Church.’ The
conference faces severe opposition from main figures in the Orthodox Church of Egypt
for the problematic issues it plans on
handling. The review presents information about the conference...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 8, 2006
The transcript of an interview conducted by Cornelis Hulsman with Kamāl Zākhir Mūsá, in which Mūsá provides a background of his work and publications. Mūsá further describes his own experiences and confrontations with the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, November 6, 2006
This review discusses news about
the conference on ‘Laymen and the Church’ which is supposed to be held on November 14 and 15 at the Egyptian
Association for Enlightenment. However members of the association filed a claim to cancel the conference. The
Orthodox church expressed its disapproval of...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 1, 2006
A number of Coptic intellectuals have organized a conference entitled: Laymen’s vision of the Problems of the Church. They discussed several problems of the Church, including the regulations of election the patriarch and trials of priests.
Date of source: Friday, November 3, 2006
An invitation for a conference about church reform entitled, ‘A Layman Vision on Church Problems.’
Date of source: Friday, October 27, 2006
The author, in this series of articles,
criticizes Bishop Bīshūy, the secretary of the Holy Synod, and refutes the top clergyman’s claims
about him, demanding that a trial for himself and Bīshūy be conducted instead of leaving "this
authoritarian way of thinking" to consolidate its position...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Bishop Bīshūy aims to excommunicate Coptic intellectual Kamāl
Zākhir, accusing him of being against the church. Bishop Bīshūy calls on Copts to boycott the
expected conference about the laymen’s view of the church’s problems.
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