Date of source: Tuesday, June 20, 2006
The
Supreme
Administrative Court has adjourned two appeals by Pope Shenouda and the Ministry of Interior until
September
16, 2006
Date of source: Sunday, June 18, 2006
Two weeks ago, al-Fajr published a letter sent in by a Bahā’ī reader, who discussed in detail the principles of the Bahā’ī faith. In its issue of June 19, 2006, al-Fajr publishes two more letters sent in by Muslim readers responding to what they described as falsehoods contained in the...
Date of source: Sunday, June 18, 2006
An overview of the Baha’i faith and interview with two practicing Baha’is. They discuss the Baha’is relationship with the authorities and views on women and other religions.
Date of source: Friday, June 23, 2006
An assessment of the benefits of secularism and
condemnation of the ways in which it
has been emptied of its positive content and turned into a form of atheism.
Date of source: Sunday, June 11, 2006
The author deals with the issue of democracy and how Egypt was a liberal state until the
outbreak
of the 1952 revolution that brought a military regime in power, which disbanded all political
parties and
established a one-party system with no clear political agenda in mind.
Date of source: Friday, June 9, 2006
The review deals with the issue of the Bahā’ī faith in Egypt amidst a tug-of -war between supporters of the Egyptian Bahā’īs’ right to have their faith openly registered in their identity cards and those denying them any rights and terming them as infidels or apostates.
Date of source: Thursday, June 1, 2006
The author argues that some demands of expatriate Copts are contradictory.
While they call for the establishment of a secular state, they call for a percentage quota for Copts in the
different institutions of the state, which the author sees as a sectarian approach.
Date of source: Monday, June 5, 2006
A recent Administrative
Judicial Court ruling allowing Egyptian Bahā’īs to have their religion recognized on official
documents and the issue of Bahā’ī marriage have been a subject of heated debate in the
Egyptian press.
Date of source: Monday, June 5, 2006
Fādī
Habashī interviews Bishop Mousā, the bishop of youth, and discusses
with him the current problems
Copts are facing.
Date of source: Sunday, June 4, 2006
The main concerns of the Copts that are being discussed are the legislative structure that forms an obstacle to the building of churches and Coptic representation in senior public positions and in parliament. A seminar under the name ‘The Copts of Egypt at a cross-road’ discussed the core of the...