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Following the lamentable incident which took place two weeks ago in the village of Taha al-‘Ameda in Samalut, and which left in its wake three dead and three wounded. Lieutenant Ahmed Al-Kilany was suspended from service, in preparation for an inquiry. Lieutenant Al-Kilany will be questioned on his...
Archpriest Marcos Emil Mikhael, Secretary of the Bishopric of Samalut, responds to in the article in Al-Musawwar, May 14, 2004, about the incident of Taha Al-‘Ameda.
Bishop Paphnotius responded to questions of readers of AWR. The interview gives an update about the developments following the tragic death of the priest and two Christians of Taha al-‘Ameda after our report of May 6 [AWR 2004, week 19, art. 30]
Barnabas Fund reported that the death of three Christians in Samalut was murder. AWR believes that is not the case. This article tries to explain the differences in positions.
The problems around Taha al-’Ameda were discussed in length in the program “In Depth” on channel 1, immediately after the evening news on Monday May 31. The program provides well-documented subjects, is well viewed and respected. “In Depth” gave with approximately 45 minutes a substantial amount of...
Bishop Paphnotius, bishop of Samalut, led a mass prayer in the forty-day anniversary mass for the victims of Taha Al-‘Ameda after which, he gave a speech detailing the events of the accident and its consequences. He began his speech with spiritual words on the Bible and he ended it with a plea to...
Bishop Bafnoutīous of Samāllout sent a letter to al-Usbou‘ denying a report published by the newspaper on the incidents at Samāllout.
A top official from the Religious Freedoms Committee of the U.S. Congress visited the Upper Egyptian governorate of Asyout last Thursday and met with a number of priests including Father Makarius at Abu Qurqās and bishop Paphnotius of Samāllout.
Despite all the criticism above Mamdouh Nakhla keeps insisting the accident was deliberately planned. He says that in all previous accidents ’the drivers who caused those accidents survived’ which is for him sufficient to suspect foul play.
The suspicions in Mamdouh Nakhla’s press release amount to a conspiracy theory about the death of a priest without having any supporting evidence. Some American Coptic activists tried to convince the RNSAW not to publish this text in the RNSAW because it harms Nakhla’s credibility. The intensive...

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