Date of source: Thursday, March 1, 2007
Father Mattah al-Māskīn, before his consecration he was called Yūsuf Iskandar, was born on September 20, 1919 in Banhā, Cairo. al-Māskīn participated in the Sunday School Movement and became a monk in 1948 knowing that the church could only be reformed from within. Students from the Sunday School...
Date of source: Sunday, April 6, 2008
The author investigates a number of Christian newspapers that have become mere advertising spaces on account of their supposed spiritual and instructive messages.
Date of source: Sunday, May 6, 2007
The following press review presents the titles of Christian publications published in Egypt by various Christian denominations.
Date of source: Friday, October 6, 2006
Father Mattá al- Miskīn is attacked by many conservative figures of the Coptic Orthodox Church. The text highlights some of the father’s liberal ideology concerning traditions of the Church.
Date of source: Sunday, August 20, 2006
As a way of honoring the deceased archpriest
Father Matta al-
Maskīn, the Margus Magazine, a publication of Saint Makarius Monastery, issued a
book containing his
diaries which he wrote in 1978 and which he ordered not to be published until after his
death.
Date of source: Friday, July 21, 2006
This
press review summarizes responses from a wide variety of persons, including Coptic
leaders, clergy, and
congregants to the controversial Max Michel, also known as Archbishop Maximus I.
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: Monday, December 14, 1998
The strong do not remain silent, and the patriotic do not veil their witnesses and words of truth. In a time of crisis the talk about such types of people reveal like a precious metal. Father Matta Al-Meskin is one of them.