Word: shenouda
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...stability, or simply violating the measure Sadat pushed through last year, known as the "Law of Shame," that makes it illegal to propagate rumors damaging to the state. Fifteen religious societies have been disbanded, virtually all dissenting publications have been closed down, independent mosques have been "nationalized," and Pope Shenouda III of the Coptic Christian Church has been exiled to a desert monastery...
Then, to the surprise of his audience, Sadat declared that he had revoked a 1971 presidential directive affirming Shenouda as the leader of Egypt's 6 million Coptic Christians, who form 14% of the population. Sadat accused Shenouda of failing to assist his government in quelling sectarian strife. Among the detainees were eight Coptic bishops, 13 priests and 125 alleged lay activists, as well as 55 secular dissidents and intellectuals...
...Coptic cathedral in Cairo, but were repulsed by riot police firing volleys of tear gas. Sadat's political response was equally firm. Late last week, he announced that he would show "no mercy" to Muslim groups involved in the strife and vowed to strip all powers from Pope Shenouda III, 117th Patriarch of the Coptic Church of Egypt...
...Mina el Muttawahad (Mina the Hermit), who spent years in the desert, then ruled the church until 1971 as Pope Kyrillos VI. He reformed the monasteries through renewed austerity and discipline. The second was Kyrillos' successor, Antonius as Suriani, who currently heads the church as Pope Shenouda lII. Before becoming a monk, Pope Shenouda was once a lay teacher in the Coptic Sunday school movement, another church development that inspired renewed interest in monasticism. Even now Pope Shenouda retires each week to a mud-stuccoed hut in the des ert for a day or more of meditation and prayer...
...drainage canals, they say, were sidetracked by the 1967 war with Israel and are only now being revived. More important to agricultural experts is the fact that the dam helped stave off droughts in the exceedingly dry years of 1972 and 1973. "We are forever saved," says William K. Shenouda, Under Secretary of State responsible for the dam, "from the cycle of seven lean years and seven fat years that Joseph encountered in biblical times." A team from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the University of Michigan, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology...