On the occasion of celebrating the 80th birthday of Pope Shenouda and the 49th anniversary of him becoming a monk, Al-Midan devoted about two and half pages to issues related to the pope. Father Marcos Aziz Khalil was angry at the article titled “The expelled of the church…from Ibrahim Abdel-Sayyed to monk Agathon.” He believes that such an article defames the pope. He also did not like another article titled "The relation between the problems of Copts and the balances of the