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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.