Meanwhile, the Syndicate of Journalists is holding a ceremony Sunday (April 1) to commemorate Pope Shenouda.

The session will play a documentary about Pope Shenouda and feature his tenure as head of the Coptic Orthodox Church and his role in ending sectarian troubles.

[Reviewer’s Note: The journalist in this news story has made a fatal mistake as he wrote ‘during his tenure as head of the Evangelical Church while Pope Shenouda was the head of the Orthodox Church]

A musical band will play a song mixing Christian history with Islamic history during the ceremony that will be attended by acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius, political activist George Ishaq and a host of intellectuals and politicians. [Rajā’ al-Nimr, al-Akhbār, April 1, p. 9] Read text in Arabic