Date of source: Saturday, May 20, 2006 to Friday, May 26, 2006
The article deals with Bahā’ism in Egypt and the attempts by the followers of this faith to obtain official recognition, particularly in light of a recent court ruling holding that the Ministry of Interior ministry should grant them identity cards in which their religion is registered.
Date of source: Monday, May 15, 2006
The
court ruling previously pronounced by a lower administrative court giving Bahā’īs the rights to
state their religion in official documents is overturned by the Supreme Administrative Court.
Date of source: Thursday, April 27, 2006
Azhar
clerics reject the court ruling granting the
Bahā’is the right to recognize their religion in official
papers and deem them apostates.
Date of source: Friday, April 21, 2006
Azhar scholars have slammed a court
ruling allowing a
Bahā’ī couple to have their religion identified on official documents.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 25, 2006
The Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy holds
an extra-ordinary
meeting to decide on the issue of recognizing the Bahā’ī faith.
Date of source: Monday, April 24, 2006
Sawt al-Umma exclusively publishes a copy of a
Bahā’ī marriage
certificate, issued in 1952 between Christian Fathī Tādrus
‘Abd al-Masīh, 26, and
Muslim Qudsīya Husayn Rouhī, 21, after they both converted
to Bahā’ism.
Date of source: Saturday, April 8, 2006
Azhar scholars have slammed
an Administrative Judicial Court ruling acknowledging the Bahā’ī faith
as an official religion in
Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, December 25, 2003
The Islamic Research Institute issued a fatwa considering Baha’is and Babis as apostates because they have changed the fundamentals of the Islamic creed.
Date of source: Sunday, December 14, 2003
The Philosophy and Doctrine Committee of the Islamic Research Institute issued a fatwa that forbids adopting the beliefs of the Baha´is, considering those adopting them as apostates. The Institute will send the fatwa to Madagascar in response to the question of officials there about the Baha...
Date of source: Monday, February 13, 2006
The Jihād Group repudiated statements made by their imprisoned leader ‘Abboud al-Zumor, who is serving a term in jail for involvement in the assassination of President Anwar al-Sadāt in 1981, in which he admitted the right of the Bahā’ī faith to express itself.