In this file photo,Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III leads liturgy for Pascha in Cairo April 7, 2007.
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Pope Shenouda in anti-Semitic outburst
Posted on Wed May 23 2007
Religious Intelligence
Monday, 21st May 2007
By: George Conger.
THE LEADER of the Coptic Church, Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria told Egyptian television last month the Western Churches were wrong to exonerate Jews for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and criticised recent statements apologising for Christian anti-Semitism.
In an interview with Dream 2 TV broadcast on April 8, Shenouda was asked if the Coptic Church would follow the lead of the Western Christian churches. Shenouda responded that the Christian Churches had “done nothing that warrants an apology,” adding he believed the apologies were being “done for appearance’s sake.”
Asked whether Jews were “Christ-killers”, responsible for the crucifixion, Shenouda stated, “The New Testament says that they are,” and asked rhetorically whether the Vatican was “against the teachings of the New Testament?”
Shenouda stated he had banned Copts from visiting Israel for fear they will “be influenced by the Israeli media, and we will not be able to prevent this. Who knows what ideas they will return with?”
The 1988 Lambeth Conference paper, “Jews, Christians and Muslims: The Way of Dialogue” acknowledged the Church’s historical complicity in anti-Semitism. The bishops at Lambeth stated “Anti-Jewish prejudice promulgated by leaders of both Church and State has led to persecution, pogrom and finally, provided the soil in which the evil weed of Nazism was able to take rood and spread its poison.”
Under the pontificate of John Paul II, the Roman Catholic Church acknowledged its role in Jewish persecution. On his March 2000 visit to the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, the Pope stated: “We hope that the Jewish people will acknowledge that the Church utterly condemns anti-Semitism and every form of racism as being altogether opposed to the principles of Christianity.”
Egyptian Copt Patriarch Shinoda: The Vatican Was Wrong to Exonerate the Jews from the Killing of Christ
MEMRI
Following are excerpts of an interview with Egyptian Copt Patriarch Shinoda III, which aired on Dream 2 TV on April 8, 2007:
Interviewer: The Vatican offered a kind of apology to contemporary Jews, and exonerated them from spilling the blood of Christ. But the Coptic Church insisted on a position that dissented from that of the Vatican.
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Egyptian Copt Patriarch Shinoda III: What is the Vatican apologizing for? It has done nothing that warrants an apology. I don't like things that are done for appearance's sake. Everything must have depth and reasons. What are they apologizing for?
Interviewer: It is an apology for describing the Jews as the killers of Christ. That was the context.
Patriarch Shinoda III: The New Testament says that they are. Is the Vatican against the teachings of the New Testament?
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I have prevented the Copts from visiting Jerusalem because of my faith and for [various] reasons, and I don't care about the consequences. First of all, many Copts want to visit Jerusalem. If I permitted this, dozens of thousands would go.
Interviewer: They yearn to go to Jerusalem.
Patriarch Shinoda III: If dozens of thousands go to Israel, they will be influenced by the Israeli media, and we will not be able to prevent this. Who knows what ideas they will return with? That's one thing. In addition, this will revive Israel
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نيافة الأب الحبيب أبينا اليايا شنودة الثالث
سلام ومحبة ربنا يسوع المسيح له المجد دائما أبديا آمين
كل عام وغبطتكم يخير وأدامك الله لنا سالما لأزمنة عديدة وسنين سالمة مجيدة
الموضوع: إلتماس الموافقة علي إقامة القداسات والصلوات والخدمات الكنسية في كنيسة مديتة بدر
نرفع لنيافتكم هذا الإلتماس ضارعين إلي السيد المسيح أن يساندكم بيمينه في مجهوداتكم الجسيمة التي تتحملونها بكل اقتدار من أجل الحفاظ علي خلاص كل نفس من نفوس أولادكم.
إن مدينة بدر هي آخر مدن القاهرة من جهة طريق السويس وتقع علي بعد 45 كيلوتر من القاهرة وعلي بعد نحو 25 كيلومتر من دير مار يوحنا ببطمس، وهي أقرب مكان به كنيسة يمكن أن يصلي بها أهالي مدينة بدر.
وبالرغم من العناية الفائقة التي يبذلها نيافة الأنبا بطرس لحد توفير عربية لنقل أهالي بدر للصلاه في بطمس كل يوم جمعة، إلا أن هذا لايكفي لتمكين جميع سكان بدر من الإستمتاع بجميع الصلوات الكنسية مثل العشيات وسهرات كيهك ... وغيرها من الكنوز الروحية لكنيستنا وخاصة بالنسبة لكبار السن والسيدات والأطفال.
لذا نلتمس من نيافتكم التوجيه باللازم لبدأ ممارسة لصلاه في كنيسة بدر، خاصة أن سقف الدور الأرضي قد استكمل ويمكن إذا أمرتم أن نبدأ الضلاه تحت سقفها لحبن إستكمال بقبة المباني والقباب. مثل ما تم بأهل شيراتون عندما صلينا في كنيسة االسيدة العذراء بالدور الأرضي قور انتهاء بناء سقفه وبقوة الصلوات تم الإنتهاء بعد عدة سنوات من بناء الدور الثاني وافتتاج كنيسة الملاك مخائيل (التي تعتبر تحفى معمارية بكل المقاييس).
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