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Date of source: Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Calls for changing Article II and deleting the phrase “principles of the sharī’ah” or replacing it with the phrase “rulings of the sharī’ah” triggered political frenzy amidst warnings of possible strife in the Egyptian society if this changes takes place.
Najīb Jabrā’īl, Chairman of the Egyptian...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 20, 2012
The three Egyptian churches represented in the constitution-writing panel, however, approved the election of Counselor Husām al-Ghiryānī, President of the Supreme Judiciary Council and the Court of Cassation, as chairman of the assembly. [‘Abd al-Wahāb Sha’bān, al-Wafd, June 20, p. 3] Read original...
Date of source: Monday, August 12, 2013
Shīʿah leaders asked for representation for their minority in the Constituent Committee responsible for amending the suspended constitution. They said that what matters the most is the not to repeat the mistakes that led the previous regime to exclude the Shīʿah community from the commission for...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Meanwhile, human rights activists, intellectuals and preachers concurred that the presidential system is the best for Egypt at present.
In a symposium on Article 2 of the Egyptian Constitution, organized by the Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Translation (CIDT) at the al-Sa’īd association on...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 15, 2012
In his election platform, presidential candidate Dr. Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awā said Egyptians are equal before the law, adding any discrimination among Egyptian citizens on the basis of religion, ethnicity or sex is a crime that has to be punishable by the law. [Muná Abū Sakīn, al-Wafd, May 15, p. 9] ...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 1, 2012
A church source said acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius named 10 persons to represent the Coptic Orthodox Church at the constitutional assembly, most notably are Bishop Mūsá of Youth, Bishop Marqus of Shubrā al-Khaymah, Counselor Edward Ghālib and Ambassador Wahīb al-Minyāwī. [‘Imād Khalīl, al-Misrī...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 1, 2012
A church source said acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius named 10 persons to represent the Coptic Orthodox Church at the constitutional assembly, most notably are Bishop Mūsá of Youth, Bishop Marqus of Shubrā al-Khaymah, Counselor Edward Ghālib and Ambassador Wahīb al-Minyāwī. [‘Imād Khalīl, al-Misrī...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Majdī Shenouda, the representative of the church on the panel, said the ruling has offered a sigh of relief for the Egyptian street and was in line with the law.
He called for re-forming the assembly that should include at least five constitutional law experts.
Asked whether the church, which had...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 17, 2012
“This compromise would settle the differences between the camp that seeks changing the Egyptian nation’s Islamic identity by just stopping at sheer general principles and the camp that seeks including the rulings of the Sharī’ah into the constitution,” said ‘Isām Dirbālah said in statements.
“The...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Meanwhile, Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb underscored the importance of participation by all groups of the society, syndicates, unions and institutions including the Azhar in the constituent assembly drafting a new constitution for Egypt.
“The meeting stressed that the articles of...
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