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Date of source: Sunday, July 18, 2010
The article highlights the unified personal status law for Christians. The author reports on the unified personal status law for Christians and states that there are reservations on the chapter covering the issue of adoption.
This article will hinder the passage of the law because although...
Date of source: Saturday, July 17, 2010
The article comments on Pope Shenouda of Alexandria and his stance on both the verdict of the Administrative Court and the personal status law for Christian denominations.
The pope ordered the removal of the signs raised inside the church which supported his stand against the verdict of the...
Date of source: Thursday, December 30, 2010
Karīmah Kamāl talks about the personal status draft law that bans remarriage for Christians. She says that it is going to cause a whole new problem and trigger sectarian troubles that will affect the country's national security, because everyone who wants to remarry and cannot do so will simply...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 14, 2010
The "Copts' Right to Divorce" society has expressed its optimism that a civil law on personal affairs for Copts will be passed, given the appointment of Jamāl As‘ad to the People's Assembly.
A prominent figure in the society who asked not to be identified said that As‘ad is known for his opposition...
Date of source: Sunday, July 25, 2010
Grand Archimandrite Ilyās Habīb, the priest of the Roman Orthodox Church in al-Zāhir, stated that the Roman Orthodox are angry about the non-Muslim personal status draft law and have declared they will not abide by it.
In addition, the Roman Orthodox are angry with Pope Shenouda because he did not...
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...
Date of source: Thursday, September 30, 2010
Pope Shenouda III said that he does not question inter-sectarian marriage and pointed out that he could not recognize non-Orthodox marriages. Head of the Baptist Church, Father Botros Falta‘ūs, said that his meeting with the pope touched upon the Personal Status Law for Copts, of which the Baptist...
Date of source: Sunday, October 31, 2010
Munsif Sulaymān, the representative of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the legal committee of the Ministry of Justice, said that the Personal Status Law for Christians is ready, and has been approved by the ministry following its approval by Pope Shenouda III. He says that the final step would be an...
Date of source: Monday, October 25, 2010
Dr. Nabīl Lūqā Bibāwī is set to defend his Ph.D. thesis on second marriage for Copts next December at Cairo University. The thesis committee consists of Dr. Mahmūd Hamdī Zaqzūq, Dr. Ahmad Fathī Surūr, Pope Shenouda III, and Dr. Hassan ‘Abd al-Bāsit al-Jumay‘ī. Bibāwī claims that the thesis contains...
Date of source: Sunday, June 27, 2010
This article looks at the Egyptian Court ruling allowing re-marriage, and the Christian Church’s refusal to accept it.
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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.