[cloudmountain]

Imagine, the Copts have their very own pope.
I wonder if Pope Benedict is doing "outreach" to the Copts, or are they just too far away.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Pope Shenouda, like the leaders of the other Middle Eastern churches, was fanatically anti-Israel. It didn't matter that both Copts and Israelis were victimized by moslems.

Shenouda supported the "palestinians" as "brother Arabs" and opposed even Anwar Sadat's loaded "peace" with Israel, preferring the hard-line position. He even forbade Copts from going to Jerusalem on pilgrimage until there was a "peace agreement" because Israel was "occupied moslem and chr*stian land."

I know most philo-Semitic American chr*stians are in love with Middle Eastern chr*stians (they're so "authentic" and the muzzies are persecuting them!), but Middle Eastern chr*stians are not the friends of Israel, Jews, or America. I'm sorry that's the way it is, but that's the way it is.

Pope Shenouda III on Israel according to Wikipedia

Whoever his successor is, he will be just as bad.