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[Reviewer: It seems that the author is reporting on ‘two priests’ and not ‘two bishops’]

 

Asyut’s Court sentenced two priests of an Orthodox bishopric, Father Banūp and Father Peter, to one year of imprisonment for their trespass into Dr. Midhat Mūrīs’ apartment, a Christian physician, in the accompany of other offenders. They destroyed the main door and broke into the apartment to seize it, in the absence of the doctor and his family. The trespassers alleged that they bought the apartment from the doctor’s mother and signed a contract. The doctor reported the incident to the prosecution and stated that they seized the apartment according to a cession contract by his mother for the Church to use the apartment for religious purposes. Before the prosecution, the mother confirmed that she sold the apartment to the Church in 2008, but sold it to her son a year earlier. For their part, the priests stated that the Church bought the apartment in question from the doctor’s mother, and that the property has become in the possession of the Church since that date.