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Date of source: Thursday, July 7, 2011
A group of Egyptian Copts protested in Cairo on Thursday, demanding the annulment of church-sanctioned divorce regulations, and calling instead for civil marriage legislation.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The Coptic Orthodox Church had demanded from the Cabinet to present it with the Unified Law for Building Houses of Worship.
A church source assured that the cathedral refuses the idea of financial supervision of the church, because the church does not get donations from the State but from...
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Sanne Lundberg’s thesis was about the strong Coptic Christian perception of being discriminated, the interplay of this belief with religious beliefs, as well as
Date of source: Thursday, August 12, 2010
Pope Shenouda accepts all the items of the status law project for non-Muslims and a sectarian argument about adoption.
Date of source: Friday, July 30, 2010
Pope Shenouda insisted that the Secular Copts group who recently proposed a draft personal status law neither represents the Coptic Orthodox people nor the Church.
Date of source: Thursday, July 22, 2010
The article highlights the controversial judgment of second marriage for Copts. The judgment of second marriage of Copts raised a crisis between the Supreme Administrative Court and the Supreme Institutional Court when the latter repealed the judgment.
The Council of State's counselor believes that...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Discussing the issue of remarriage for divorcees, Coptic scholar Dr. Nabīl Lūqā Bibāwī praises Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III for sticking with what he sees as verses that allow divorce only in cases of adultery.
He also thanks Egyptian President Husnī Mubārak for admitting a draft law for...
Date of source: Sunday, December 26, 2010
This article discusses Pope Makarius III, the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch from 1942-1944, who led the first Holy Synod.
Nabīh mentions that many important decisions were made as a result of the synod, including the permitting of divorces only in the case of adultery; the other was proposing a...
Date of source: Saturday, December 25, 2010
Asmā’ Nassār argues that Egypt cannot be a civil country without making a distinction between religion and state. For instance, she says that some Egyptian schools force Christians to memorize verses from the Qur'ān.
Nassār recommends several ways to improve the civil state in Egypt.
The first way...
Date of source: Thursday, December 2, 2010
Egypt’s Administrative Court has upheld a previous ruling requiring that the Coptic Orthodox Church issue remarriage licenses for divorcees. Presiding judge Kamāl Lam‘ī rejected the two appeals because he says they failed to provide any convincing reason to overturn the prior ruling, which was...
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Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.