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Copts prepare to celebrate Easter next Sunday [11 April 1999], and Egypt’s monasteries are making ready. It is the desert fathers who caused the monastic movement to bloom worldwide, and it is their spiritual heirs who continue to take the vows today.."
Some sources are attributing the decision of dismissal of monk Antonios Al-Gowargi from Al-Khatatba Monastery and removal of his monastic rank to his circulation of rumors against Father Bimoua, priest and head of Mar Girgis Monastery.
More information on the dismissal of a monk from the Mari Girgis Monastery in Khatatba.
Responding to Al-Arabi’s article that was published last week titled "An ambiguous crime in Mari Girgis Monastery in Al-Khatatba", a representative of Bishop Bimoua came to the paper bringing documents that supported their reply. He said, Monk Antonios Al-Gowargi voluntarily left the monastery. His...
Basically the same text as in the article above.
His Grace Bishop Bimoua, bishop and head of the Mari Girgis Monastery in Al-Khatatba and the group of priests and monks of the monastery announce to all churches and monasteries and all the people that a decision has been made to dismiss Monk Antonios Al-Gowargi from his monastic duties from the...
A quirky article giving information on the court appearance of the monk dismissed from the Mari Girgis Monastery in Al-Khatatba.
Last week, the Sadat City Prosecutor called for Fr. Antonios in Mari Girgis monastery, and four workers who are working in the same monastery who made a complaint against the monk. They accused him of attacking one of them with a razor blade in an attempt to rape him. The worker was wounded in his...
Four persons attacked the monk. They tied his hands with ropes and chains, shaved his beard, cut his hair, forced him to take off his robe and beat him. In an official report they also accused him of trying to rape a young man.
Five Christian monks are living in mountain caves 20 kilometers from the wadi. Father Matta El Maskeen lived in the same place 30 years ago.

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