2008年12月27日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Religion News

Egypt's Coptic pope bans phone confessions (AFP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2008 12:16 PM CST

Pope Shenuda III, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Patriarch of Alexandria and the See of St. Mark, addresses followers in Cairo in June 2008. Egypt's Coptic pope has banned the faithful from confessing their sins to priests over the telephone because intelligence agents might be listening in, a newspaper reported on Friday.(AFP/File/Cris Bouroncle)AFP - Egypt's Coptic pope has banned the faithful from confessing their sins to priests over the telephone because intelligence agents might be listening in, a newspaper reported on Friday.


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