The Court of Cassation on Wednesday upheld a death sentence against a former monk and changed the penalty against another monk to life imprisonment, over killing Bishop Epiphanius, late head of the Saint Macarius Monastery in Wadi El-Natroun in northern...اقرأ المزيد
A Damanhour criminal court sentenced the two former monks convicted of killing Bishop Epiphanius, late head of the Saint Macarius Monastery in Wadi El-Natroun, to death over premeditated murder. Wael Saad (formerly known as Monk Ash’eyaa) and Raymond...اقرأ المزيد
The team investigating the murder of Bishop Epiphanius, head of the Saint Macarius Monastery, is claiming that the two monks suspected of the murder had unsuccessfully attempted to murder the bishop twice. Defense attornies have denied the monks played...اقرأ المزيد
The Damanhour Criminal Court in Beheira on Saturday continued the trial of the two suspects behind the murder of Bishop Epiphanius, head of the Saint Macarius Monastery. During the trial’s third session, the second suspect Faltaous al-Makary (Raymon...اقرأ المزيد
Monk Faltaous al-Makary cried when he heard of the death of monk Zenon al-Makary, Faltaous’s lawyer Michelle Halim said. He added that Feltaous told him that Zenon knew the real murderer of Bishop Epiphanius, head of the Saint Macarius Monastery in...اقرأ المزيد
The Damanhour Criminal Court in Beheira began its first session on Sunday in the trial of two suspects in the murder of Bishop Epiphanius, head of the Saint Macarius Monastery. Main defendant Ash’eyaa al-Makary (Wael Saad Tawadros) pleaded not guilty...اقرأ المزيد
Defense attorneys for the main suspect, Ash’eyaa al-Makary, in the murder of Bishop Epiphanius on Saturday demanded that the case be reinvestigated, claiming their defendant was forced into confessing. Public Prosecution charged monks Ash’eyaa and...اقرأ المزيد
Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria’s Coptic Orthodox Church met on Tuesday with the brother of the expelled monk who murdered Bishop Epiphanius of Waid al-Natroun’s Saint Macarius Monastery. The official spokesperson for the Coptic Orthodox Church, Priest...اقرأ المزيد
Head of the Alexandria appeal court, Mohamed Moustafa, has ordered monk Faltaous al-Makary be detained for four days pending investigations over the murder case of St. Macarius Monastery head Bishop Epiphanius in Wadi al-Natroun. Members of public prosecution...اقرأ المزيد
A few days after the mysterious death of Bishop Epiphanius, head of the Saint Macarius Monastery at Wadi al-Natroun, the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church has stripped monk Ash’eyaa al-Makary of his sacerdotal rank and expelled him. The church said in...اقرأ المزيد
