Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 15, 2004
A husband whose wife gets divorce based on the personal status code for Orthodox Copts, regulating the affairs of marriage and divorce and other related matters, filed a lawsuit in which he challenged the code unconstitutional. The complainant argues the Holy Bible, which is the first source of...
Date of source: الاثنين, تموز (يوليو) 12, 2004
Usama Wadia reports what happened to Ingy Nagy William after the AWR team investigated the reasons of her conversion to Islam. Ingy ran away from her Muslim family in order to get married to her Muslim friend.
Date of source: الاثنين, نيسان (أبريل) 18, 2005
Shawqī Murqus, went to the civil status department to ask for a national identity card but the department refused to issue it for him under the pretext that he had converted to Islam in 1972. He provided evidence that he had reconverted to Christianity with a ruling of the Clerical Council of the...
Date of source: الخميس, نيسان (أبريل) 7, 2005
A Christian wife, Qatqouta, found out that
her husband, a lawyer, is married to someone else. She filed a lawsuit to request the cancellation of her marriage for it no
longer complies with precepts of the Christianity that forbids polygamy.
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون الثاني (يناير) 7, 2005
The Bible says “no divorce except for marital unfaithfulness.” Pope Shenouda insists on applying the Biblical text literally thinking, that he should obey God, not the people.
Date of source: الأربعاء, آب (اغسطس) 29, 2001
The lawsuit Archpriest Andrawis Aziz filed against Pope Shenouda to cancel the decision that stripped him of his religious title and the report of the State Council Judges which viewed the decisions of the church as administrative decisions pushed Al-Kalema [the word] Center for human rights to...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آب (اغسطس) 7, 2001
The Coptic Church lawyer filed a suit to prevent Mamdouh Mahran, editor in chief of Al Nabaa, from being given a verdict that enabled him and his son to rejoin the Journalists’ Syndicate.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 31, 2001
Seven Coptic lawyers field a lawsuit against the Minister of Interior to oblige him to register the uniform of Coptic Orthodox clergymen and to consider wearing it by anyone but a priest or a monk a crime.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تموز (يوليو) 25, 2001
The author expressed the opinion that what Sout Al-Umma published about the 70,000 Copts forging police reports to get American nationality was no better than what Al-Nabaa published, saying that Copts are disloyal to Egypt. He added that because of believing in the good attentions of the paper,...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تموز (يوليو) 25, 2001
Counselor Naguib Gabrail assured the Editor-in-Chief of Sout Al-Umma that he did not file any reports against the paper. He also told him that Mamdouh Nakhla was willing to drop his case and that he was willing for the three of them to meet at Sout Al-Umma [headquarters] to discuss the matter. In...