Date of source: الأربعاء, آذار (مارس) 7, 2007
al-Maydān newspaper publishes an explanation of church trials, its judging panels and decisions.
Date of source: الجمعة, آذار (مارس) 9, 2007
Su‘ād Sāliḥ believes that the Niqāb is a custom, not a necessity, asserting that she does not oppose it.
Date of source: السبت, آذار (مارس) 10, 2007
Dr. ‘Ātif al-‘Irāqī highlights that secularism has become a dubious term both in the Arab and Egyptian communities. He prefers to be described as “enlightened” rather than “secular.”
Date of source: السبت, آذار (مارس) 10, 2007
Egyptian Muftīī ‘Alī Jum‘ah announces the launch of a project enabling free, all-day access to Fatwás in four languages.
Date of source: الأحد, آذار (مارس) 11, 2007
Waṭanī holds a meeting to discuss issues surrounding religious conversion. Prominent human rights activists and Coptic lawyers participate, suggesting ways to regulate conversions.
Date of source: الأربعاء, شباط (فبراير) 28, 2007
Ibrāhīm ‘Īsā holds a press conference to comment on the verdicts against him.
Date of source: الأربعاء, شباط (فبراير) 28, 2007
al-Dustūr newspaper interviews Michael Munīr, head of the US Copts Association.
Date of source: الأحد, آذار (مارس) 4, 2007
An interview with Father Rafīq Jirīsh, head of the press center of the Catholic Church, to comment on Catholics’ conditions and role in Egypt.
Date of source: الاثنين, آذار (مارس) 5, 2007
George Ḥabīb Bibāwī revealed that the paramount reason listed within the 23 errors that the church hierarchy published as reasons for his excommunication was the fact that he teaches secular literature, including the novels of Najīb Maḥfūẓ.
Date of source: الجمعة, آذار (مارس) 2, 2007
George Bibāwī has filed a lawsuit with the State Council against the Holy Synod requesting the cancellation of the church’s decision to excommunicate him from the church.