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Date of source: Thursday, April 11, 2019
Pope Tuwadrus II held a meeting with the Coptic Catholic Patriarch Ibrahim Ishaq and the President of the Evangelical Community in Egypt Andrīa Zakī at St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in ‘Abbasīa for discussing a unified draft for the Personal Status law of Christians.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Pastor Rifʿat Fikrī, President of the Media Committee of the Egyptian Council of Churches, stated that the Egyptian church returned the code of personal status for Copts to Counselor Majdī al-ʿAjātī, Minister of Legal Affairs and Parliament, to discuss and amend it.
Date of source: Sunday, March 12, 2017
Dear esteemed Egyptian church leaders,
In the previous part of my letter, I said that I would write to you this open, transparent discourse after the Personal Status Code was returned to the churches so as to yield language consented upon by all Christian communities. This letter includes...
Date of source: Monday, December 28, 2015
Bishop Antōnios `Azīz of the Gīza Coptic Catholic Diocese confirmed that Egypt's Council of Churches has not yet met to reach a consensus on a unified personal status law proposal for all five Churches, stressing that the Council's last meeting on this issue was last year.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 11, 2011
The unified law on houses of worship provides for the agreement of the religious authority. The governors issue the required licenses within 3 months of submitting the request. A source in the Cabinet states to al-Ahrām that the law establishes unified rules for building, restoration, demolition...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Copts involved in the dog battle are planning a protest march in front of the Ministry of Justice for September 15, continuing with their demands for a law on civil marriage, as well requesting resignations from the Orthodox denomination sitting on the clerical council.
Date of source: Sunday, July 24, 2011
The Coptic Orthodox Church is seeking to have the unified personal status law for non-Muslims passed as soon as possible, official sources from the papal office said.
The move is intended to prevent a possible crisis between the Church and the judiciary and to address the problem of Copts seeking a...
Date of source: Saturday, July 9, 2011
"Awake and arise, Christians, we will not say it to the priests, the archbishops or the pope…we are not in a jungle" - were chants of Copts denied remarriage.
The agonized cries echoed on the stairs of the Ministry of Justice on July 8 as they protested about church laws on marriage and divorce....
Date of source: Tuesday, July 5, 2011
The “Copts’ right to divorce” movement is calling for the “necessary” adoption of a personal status law, which would shatter the deadlock of the church law, and would be applied it to all Copts without discrimination. The movement has called for a demonstration this coming Thursday in front on the...
Date of source: Sunday, August 15, 2010
Kamal Zakher, the coordinator of Coptic secular bloc, is waiting for the Ministry of Justice's decision concerning the secular united personal status law for Copts.
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