One of the measures gave monks a month “to deactivate and close any social media pages or accounts and voluntarily renounce these behaviours that are not true to monastic life”. In his last posting on Facebook before shutting the page, Tawadros said that using social media is a “waste of time, age and life”. “That is why I am shutting down my personal Facebook page and I salute all my brothers and sons who have followed the instructions of my sacred church”. According to Al-Ahram, several senior Coptic Church officials have followed Tawadros’s example and shut down their Facebook pages. Tawadros became pope in 2012, and according to Egyptian media has not been active on Facebook since he opened his page in 2009.

Source: The Guardian August 04, 2018 14:03 UTC