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47. A Christian man accused the government of persecuting Copts and resorted to the Vatican when the Family Court referred to the Abi H&#803anifah school of Islamic law in a lawsuit he had filed to determine his daughter’s paternity
Date of source: Monday, August 27, 2007
A Catholic husband doubts the paternity of his daughter and criticizes the Egyptian judicial authorities that dealt with his family’s life by relying on the Islamic Sharī‘ah. The Catholic Church criticized the issue and preferred a church court that might refer in serious cases to the pope of the...
26. A Christian wife argues to revoke the verdict of her divorce ruling because her husband, who converted to Islam in order to divorce her, is still attending Christian church services
Date of source: Monday, July 30, 2007
A Christian wife has filed a lawsuit that calls for the nullification of a divorce ruling she previously received. The wife’s appeal is based on evidence that her husband, who claimed to have embraced Islam in order to divorce her, was seen regularly attending Christian services.
38. Copts warn: Pope Shenouda is preparing Bishop Bishuy to succeed him although this would ignite sectarian sedition in Egypt and bloody conflicts between Copts
Date of source: Monday, July 2, 2007
The author argues that the new newspaper that Bishop Bīshūy intends to issue will ignite crisis within Coptic circles. He believes that Bishop Bīshūy will use it as a platform to present himself as an alternative to Pope Shenouda.
33. A Muslim lecturer at the Institute of Arab Music accuses a Coptic professor of discriminating against him
Date of source: Monday, June 25, 2007
A Muslim lecturer at the Institute of Arab Music accuses a ‘Coptic’ professor who supervises his master’s thesis of persecuting him because his father in-law was a Copt and converted to Islam, claiming that the professor has a history of religious discrimination against Muslims.
32. A Copt files a complaint before the general prosecutor, claiming that he was subject to religious discrimination
Date of source: Monday, June 25, 2007
A Coptic employee at a post office in northern Cairo filed a complaint before the general prosecutor, accusing a Muslim responsible in the post office of persecuting him because he ran in one of the local elections for his constituency.
15. Priest of Shibin al-Kum’s church attacks Islam and questions the Qur’an on a CD distributed in Shubra
Date of source: Monday, May 21, 2007
In a CD recently released in Shubra, Tadrus Yūsuf, priest of Shibīn al-Kūm’s church, has attacked Islam and questioned the Qur’ān.
22. Rumors spread about the Coptic Orthodox Church’s intention to conduct a census
Date of source: Saturday, April 21, 2007
Rumors spread about the Coptic Orthodox Church’s intention to prepare statistics about the number of Copts in Egypt. While clergymen denied the news, they asserted that the official declared number of Copts was wrong and inaccurate.
44. A church servant presses kidnap charge against Pope Shenouda III and his nephew
Date of source: Saturday, April 21, 2007 to Friday, April 27, 2007
In a police report, a church servant accuses Pope Shenouda’s nephew of having an adulterous relationship with his wife. He also accuses the pope, in another report, of instructing a number of clergymen to kidnap his father to force him to withdraw the charges he directed against the pope’s nephew.
61. Church servant fired for reporting hymen restoration operations
Date of source: Monday, April 9, 2007
The article is about a church servant who was fired for reporting that his wife had her hymen reconstructed with permission from the church.
23. A Muslim lawyer attempts to force his Coptic client to convert to Islam
Date of source: Monday, January 22, 2007
A Coptic businesswoman has filed a complaint before the general prosecution against her Muslim lawyer, accusing him of handing over important documents to her disputants in order to force her to embrace Islām.

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