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Date of source: Tuesday, August 1, 2000
In Al-Midan of May 9, 2000, accountant Pulais Basili wrote an article, entitled "The Statement of the Minister of Justice and Al-Khula for Christians". In this article, he accused the church of controlling the lives of its sons and daughters and of bearing the responsibility of their fallen...
Date of source: Friday, June 2, 2000
The author begins his article by recounting how the Minister of Justice settled the heated debate between the two counselors Malek Mena and Wasaf Nashed, concerning whether to apply the law of Al-Khula to Christians or not. Then he mentions the role the late priest Ibrahim Abdel Said played in...
Date of source: Saturday, April 22, 2000 to Friday, April 28, 2000
This woman opened the door in the passageway of the courts of personal status, for tortured Christian women to get a divorce. F.F., a Coptic businesswoman, took a short cut to divorce by asking for the [Islamic] Khula’ law to be applied to her according to the new personal status law, after...
Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2000
After the storm that the new family law [that is, the Personal Status Law] has created for the Muslims in the sessions of the People’s Assembly and its ratification, and with the number of sessions held by the assembly and the numerous interventions from different trends, many have neglected a...
Date of source: Monday, October 4, 1999
Pope Shenouda defends his decision to give instructions that no one should pray over the body of the deceased priest Ibrahim Abd al-Sayed.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 1999
The number of divorces in Egypt is on the rise according to a Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) study reported in the Egyptian opposition daily Al Wafd. While there were 67,000 divorce cases filed in 1990, by 1997 that number had jumped to 71,000. Last year the number...
Date of source: Friday, August 27, 1999
There are a lot of questions concerning conversion to another denomination. People are asking whether converting to another denomination is included in the project of Personal Status Law or the non-Muslims or not. They also ask whether this conversion has its effect on the matrimonial procedures...
Date of source: Monday, August 16, 1999
Since the Egyptian media have frequently referred to the press conference on Christian girls allegedly being kidnapped the RNSAW decided to present here the full transcript of the discussion which took place in New York. The discussion was mainly with members of the American Coptic Union who had...
Date of source: Sunday, August 15, 1999
In the mind of the author, the report of Drs. Cornelis Hulsman prepared for the New York Council of Churches a few weeks ago regarding the alleged kidnappings, rapes and forced conversions to Islam of young Christian girls was like a bomb destroying the claims of the Coptic groups in the USA who...
Date of source: Saturday, July 3, 1999
If the Muslim wife does not obey the Islamic Sharia and submit to her husband, then she will be considered "Nashez." This is quite natural to the Muslims, but when this happens to Christian wives, this is extraordinary because the Church does not agree with this sentence.
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
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.