Date of source: Monday, December 11, 2006
A conflict between a nun and a monastery over land and property ownership.
Date of source: Saturday, February 23, 2002
Abu Maqar monastery issued
a book titled ?The Divine Wisdom Behind the Structure of the Church.? The book tackles the role the church can play
in the political sphere. According to the book, clergymen are not allowed to play a political role. Laymen can play
a more effective role than clergymen...
Date of source: Thursday, March 7, 2002
Visit to locations related to the Holy Family in Upper Egypt.
Reference to the murder of a priest in Luxor by a Christian, which gave cause to rumors.
Date of source: Sunday, December 3, 2006
The article explains the history of Monastery of Muharraq and describes the experience of 16 artists who stayed there for six days.
Date of source: Thursday, November 30, 2006
Copts recently
celebrated the thirty-fifth anniversary of Pope Shenouda’s consecration as patriarch of the See of St.
Mark.
Date of source: Saturday, November 25, 2006
A new book about Egyptian
Coptic art and icons published in Paris by
Mahmūd Zibāwī.
Date of source: Sunday, July 1, 2001
Al-Ahram al-Arabi shed light on the life of monks under the title "We Are Angels Living on Earth." al-Aḥrār reported that after its journalist visited al-Muharraq monastery, it concluded that the expelled monk’s crimes could not have taken place there as al-Nabaa claimed. The history of Christian...
Date of source:
Swift intensive efforts were made this week to contain a Muslim-Christian crisis due to a
blasphemous article, by
a Muslim writer, about a former monk. Thousands of angry youths protested against
the article, the Government was
accused of being in collusion with the paper, Pope Shenouda...
Date of source:
Mamdouh Mahran, chief
editor of the weekly al-Nabaa, claimed that a former Coptic monk had
practiced prostitution inside the
church. Mahran was highly criticized in Egyptian media and was
accused of
damaging national unity. His
article provoked angry protests by Copts in Assiut and in the main...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Walā’ Zayn al-Dīn writes
about a symposium, entitled,
‘Modern Methods to Restore Church Relics,’ recently held by the Society for
Reviving National Egyptian Heritage at the
Journalists’ Syndicate. The symposium was organized in an
effort to address the difficulties facing the restoration...