Church sources say that Pope Shenouda decided to retreat from public life in protest against the fact that the 154 Copts tkane prisoners in the Al-‘Umrāniyyah incident were still not released.
 Sources assured that most of the sectarian incidents end up with a reconciliation meeting but this time there was intransigence from security forces.


It is worth mentioning, that the Pope said in his weekly sermon on Wednesday: “Copts blood is not cheap, the church won’t give up its children”.