Pope Tawadros II today made a telephone call to the mother of Wael Saad Tawadros who had been a monk named Ishaia’ al-Maqari, but was defrocked by the Coptic Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod Committee of Monasticism and Monastery Affairs. The defrocked monk is 34 years old, had taken orders in 2010 at the Western Desert … Continue reading Pope calls and meets family members of suspect killers of Anba Epiphanius