Date of source: Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Pope Shenouda urged Copts to take
preventive and cautious measures during their phone callsbecause State Security Investigation
monitors
them.
Date of source: Friday, September 29, 2006
In this article the author tries to analyze bishop Bīshūy’s stance against him and other key Orthodox figures by quoting an email written by Dr. George Habīb Bibawi.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 6, 2006
On the sideline of a seminar organized by Jam‘īyat Humāt
al-Mustaqbal [Reviewer: The society of the protectors of the future], affiliated to the St. Mark
Church
in Alexandria, Father Ibrām Emile has highlighted the need for the removal of religious
data from the
’national number’ identity...
Date of source: Monday, August 21, 2006
This author outlines claims about the alleged abduction of Muslim girls and attempts to convert them to Christianity with the help of the Coptic Orthodox church.
Date of source: Monday, August 7, 2006
Families of eight Christian girls, who disappeared suddenly, talked to Sawt al-Umah, saying that their daughters might have converted to Islām and married Muslims.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 2, 2006
The author reports on the demonstrations held at the Coptic Orthodox cathedral last Wednesday. He met with protesters and tried to find out the reasons behind their anger.
Date of source: Monday, July 3, 2006
The author sheds light on the life of Egyptian Orthodox nuns inside a convent and their
rebellion against the convent head, Archbishop Bīshūy, for his strict orders separating them
entirely from
the outside world.
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
The church has
given a decision stripping a priest in al-Jīza of his
priesthood after being found guilty of collecting
funds for himself in the name of the Coptic cathedral.
Date of source: Monday, March 20, 2006
A project for a huge Egyptian production of a film about the life of Jesus Christ has triggered outcries from the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Date of source: Friday, March 17, 2006
Pope Shenouda has allegedly threatened to defrock any monk who remarries divorced Copts without permission from the clerical council, since the Coptic Orthodox Church only allows divorce in a few, limited circumstances.