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Valdosta

(331 posts)
Wed Mar 13, 2024, 08:05 PM Mar 2024

Coptic Orthodox Church suspends talks with Catholics over blessing of same-sex couples

Coptic Orthodox Church suspends talks with Catholics over blessing of same-sex couples
Christian Post

The Coptic Orthodox Church has reportedly suspended its dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church over the Catholic Church's decision to allow priests to bless same-sex couples.

Coptic leadership held a Holy Synod last week in Wadi El-Natrun, Egypt. The church hierarchy recommended various issues, including recognizing assorted monasteries, adding mental health topics to marital counseling and praying for unity within the Orthodox Church.

Coptic Orthodox spokesman Father Moussa Ibrahim explained in a video that "the most notable" action from the annual Holy Synod was "to suspend theological dialogue with the Catholic Church after its change of position on the issue of homosexuality."

In a statement released last week, the Coptic Church elaborated on its stance, stating that it "affirms its firm position of rejecting all forms of homosexual relationships, because they violate the Holy Bible and the law by which God created man as male and female, and the Church considers any blessing of such relations, whatever its type, to be a blessing for sin, and this is unacceptable."

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Coptic Orthodox Church suspends talks with Catholics over blessing of same-sex couples (Original Post) Valdosta Mar 2024 OP
Religion is MOMFUDSKI Mar 2024 #1
Jesus taught love. WTF, Coptics. Shove it. CurtEastPoint Mar 2024 #2
Those coptic to chill out IbogaProject Mar 2024 #3

IbogaProject

(3,702 posts)
3. Those coptic to chill out
Wed Mar 13, 2024, 11:01 PM
Mar 2024

Islam is uptight enough, maybe they should chill out and practice what Jesus actually taught and did.

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