Date of source: Sunday, January 1, 2006
The article deals with the issue of Zakarīyā Butrus, a defrocked Coptic priest who attacks Islam on the satellite channel al-Hayāt, a matter which Bishop Bīshouy, the secretary of the Coptic Holy Synod, said runs counter to Christianity.
Date of source: Friday, September 30, 2005
Can the launching of two satellite channels by the Coptic Orthodox Church be in response to other Christian channels that promote sectarian sedition?
Date of source: Monday, November 8, 2004
Mustafa Abd Al-Latif Darwish’s article on November 1, 2004 about Archpriest Zakaria Butros was all in all a series of excesses. Butros should have respected the decision taken by the Holy Synod to defrock him, especially after his hallucinations that wrong the priestly costumes he is wearing.
Date of source: Monday, November 8, 2004
The writer of Sawt Al-Umma article’s on the Archpriest should have asked himself whether the Torah and the Bible have been corrupted before or after Prophet Muhammad. If they were corrupted before Prophet Muhammad, then why did the Qur’an attest them? And if they were corrupted after Prophet...
Date of source: Monday, November 8, 2004
I have been shocked when I read an article in Sawt Al-Umma’s November 1 issue by Mustafa Abd Al-Latif Darwish under the title Archpriest Zakaria Butros’s play. The article seems to be refuting what the Archpriest has said in an interview in the Al-Hayat channel, but actually it is all about...
Date of source: Sunday, November 7, 2004
Due to his interest in Islamic sciences and profound search for the essence of Islam, Judge Edwar Ghali Al-Dahabi, former head of State Lawsuits Authority, was granted the first-class medal of science and art during the celebrations of the Birthday of Prophet Muhammad in 1994 to be the first Copt...
Date of source: Monday, November 1, 2004
A play authored and directed on the website of Archpriest Zakaria Botros featured two Christians by the names Basem Muhammad Said and Nahed Metwalli. Both of them announced they were Muslims before they converted to Christianity.
Date of source: Monday, October 11, 2004
We wonder why Pope Shenouda did not investigate Zakariya Botros’s insults against Islam. Accountant and researcher in Coptic affairs Kamal Zakhir Moussa says that the church has to declare its official stance towards Zakariya Botros. He also asks Pope Shenouda to be more definite and transparent...
Date of source: Sunday, September 26, 2004
The Egyptian church issued statements stressing that it has nothing to do with archpriest Zakariya Botros, whose name became associated with a series of problems he caused through discussing faith-related matters. In spite of this, books authored by Archpriest Botros are sold in Christian bookshops...
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 2004
A girl called Asmaa Muhammad Zaki who suffers from mental illness, disappeared. This girl’s father accidentally found out that his daughter converted to Christianity.
On another level, an extremist priest called Marcos Zakariya [the correct name is Zakariya Botros See AWR 2004, week 22, art. 24]...