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  • Coptic Confession

    12/31/2008 10:32:22 AM PST · by NYer · 23 replies · 543+ views
    Curt Jester ^ | December 26, 2008 | Jeff Miller
    CAIRO - 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. "Confessions over the telephone are forbidden, because there is a chance the telephones are monitored and the confessions will reach state security," the independent Al-Masri Al-Yom quoted Pope Shenuda III as saying. The leader of the Coptic minority also said confessions over the Internet were invalid because they might be read by websurfers. "A confession over the Internet does not count as a confession, because everybody can look at it...