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Date of source: Sunday, September 15, 2002
Pope Shenouda rejects any heresies in the teachings of the Orthodox Church. In 1988, he excommunicated Archpriest Zakaria Butros of St. Mark Church in Heliopolis because of preaching the heresy of “salvation in a moment.” Today, he faces a new heresy, that is “The New Testament Church.”
Date of source: Sunday, July 16, 2000
Pope Shenouda says that the doors of repentance are still open before the excommunicated New Testament group. He says that the church was not contented with stripping the leaders of the group of their ecclesiastical ranks, but furthermore the church is following up the issue on the national level...
Date of source: Sunday, July 16, 2000
The members of the New Testament group believe they represents the seed of the real Christian church that will revive the teachings of the Fathers. They consider the present church a dead church that deviated from the Christian faith. They believe that they are God´s agents on earth and that they...
Date of source: Saturday, May 8, 1999 to Friday, May 14, 1999
Milad Sobhi, founder of the new denomination variously referred to as the ’Testament Church’, ’Coptic Testament Church’ or ’Divorcee’s church’ responds to an article by Dr. Girgis Kamel Youssef which attacked his claim that the "law of Moses is an Egyptian law." Here he gives his ’proofs’ for his...
Date of source: Saturday, May 8, 1999 to Friday, May 14, 1999
An anonymous Coptic Christian writes on the problem of divorced Copts. He cites statements by two legal counselors who say that the courts should decide the matter of permissions to remarry for divorced Coptic Orthodox Christians, and says that prohibition of permission of their remarriage is a...
Date of source: Saturday, May 1, 1999
A response to Milad Sobhi’s claims that the law of the Old Testament is an Egyptian law and it is not true that it is a Jewish law as well as some of his other claims.
Date of source: Thursday, April 29, 1999
Desiring to end the problems caused by differences among the Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant orders, 43-year old agricultural engineer Milad Sobhi intends to start a new one of his own, cashing in on the nagging problem of divorce to rally support for his call.
Date of source: Saturday, April 24, 1999 to Friday, April 30, 1999
A new group wants to establishing a new separatist denomination from Pope Shenouda. The group is led by an agricultural engineer who has taken advantage of the problems of 44,000 Copts and is establishing a new church.
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