{"id":12078,"date":"2018-08-19T20:31:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T20:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12078"},"modified":"2018-08-19T20:31:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T20:31:50","slug":"egypt-reveals-details-of-skeletons-found-inside-sarcophagus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12078","title":{"rendered":"Egypt reveals details of skeletons found inside sarcophagus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1358841\/middle-east\" readability=\"45\">\n<p>\nCAIRO: Egyptian prosecutors on Sunday charged two Coptic monks with murdering a bishop at a desert monastery, in a high-profile case that has shaken the Christian community in the country.<br \/>Bishop Epiphanius, 68, the head of Saint Macarius monastery in Wadi el-Natrun, was found dead with a head wound in late July.<br \/>Prosecutors accuse monks Wael Al-Saad and Remon Resmi of agreeing to kill the senior cleric over unspecified \u201cdifferences,\u201d a statement from the attorney general\u2019s office said.<br \/>Saad confessed to lying in wait for the bishop as he headed for prayers before hitting him over the head with a metal pipe while Resmi watched on, the statement said.<br \/>Prosecutors referred the two monks to trial but no date has been set for the case to be heard.<br \/>After the killing Saad, known by his ecclesiastical name Isaiah, was expelled from the Church and attempted to commit suicide.<br \/>The bishop\u2019s death has rocked the Coptic Church in Egypt, the largest Christian community in the Middle East.<br \/>Following the incident, the Church announced a series of restrictive measures related to the activities of monks.<br \/>It said it was stopping accepting new monks for a year and gave current monks a month to disable all of their social media accounts.<br \/>Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II also closed his official Facebook page.<br \/>The moves pointed to the existence of rifts within the church that some have tied to the bishop\u2019s murder.<br \/>Church authorities have remained largely silent on the matter.<br \/>Coptic Christians make up about 10 percent of Egypt\u2019s predominantly Sunni Muslim population of some 100 million.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO: Egyptian prosecutors on Sunday charged two Coptic monks with murdering a bishop at a desert monastery, in a high-profile case that has shaken the Christian community in the country.Bishop Epiphanius, 68, the head of Saint Macarius monastery in Wadi el-Natrun, was found dead with a head wound in late July.Prosecutors accuse monks Wael Al-Saad&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}