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Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 1999
After reading the article of Hamouda concerning the barring of prayers over the body of father Ibrahim Abdel Sayyed the author wants to clarify some internal matters concerning the rules and traditions of the Coptic Orthodox church.
Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 1999
Bebawi writes he was not at all surprised with the decision to bar the holding of a funeral for father Ibrahim Abdel Sayyed but he was surprised to see the publication of an interview with Bishop Bishoy who, according to Bebawi, makes fatal mistakes in presenting church history.
Date of source: Thursday, September 16, 1999
For years, clerical and lay members of the Coptic Orthodox Church have criticized the authoritarian ways of Pope Shenouda III. The standard complaints, that he keeps church finances too close to his chest, refuses debate on issues like divorce, and is too quick to throw his opponents out of the...
Date of source: Sunday, September 12, 1999
Love is the magic word Christianity is founded on, giving way to springs of mercy, gentleness and wonder to gush out. However, love, the backbone of Christianity, has been severely hit but not in a back-breaking way, by Pope Shenouda when he decided not to pray over the body of the priest Ibrahim...
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 1999
Bishop Bishoi is the head of the church court and he is the secretary of the Holy Synod. He answered all questions which have been raised because of the story of the body of father Abdel Sayed and why it was forbidden to pray over the body of father Abdel Sayed.
Date of source: Sunday, September 12, 1999
Priest Ibrahim Abdel Sayyed died of a heart attack. He got the rest for which he longed, but the case that was raised after his death is not closed yet. Christians expected that Pope Shenouda would permit prayers over the body, but the opposite occurred. Pope Shenouda called especially from the...
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 1999
Concerning the monk who held a prayer over the body of Priest Ibrahim Abdel Sayyed, Father Bishoi said that the Coptic Church was not sure whether Aghathon, the monk, prayed over the body or not. If the Church proved that, then this monk should be punished.
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 1999
The wife of Father Ibrahim Abdel Sayyed and all the family of the priest are asking: Is it possible to ask Pope Shenouda to forgive this family which has no enmity towards the church, and allow to hold the fortieth-day prayer which the members of the family will participate in, in order to forget...
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 1999
Dr. Milad Hanna commented on the Pope’s decision not to pray over the body of Ibrahim Abdel Sayyed. He said that he was not on good terms with the Pope... Since he was still a priest when he died, what is the point of the Pope’s objection to praying over Father Abdel Sayyed’s body?
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 1999
It is not easy to defy the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, His Holiness Pope Shenouda III - and get away with it - as the family of one dead clergyman has learned. No one - including some of the pope’s most reliable allies - had anticipated the kind of revenge Pope Shenouda had arranged for...
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Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.