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25. A Coptic lawyer accuses Bishop Bula, president of the Clerical Council, of taking bribes and favoring Halah S&#803idqi by giving her a second marriage license
Date of source: Thursday, September 20, 2007
Coptic lawyer Mamdūḥ Ramzī has accused the President of the Clerical Council Bishop Bula of taking bribes from divorced men and women in order to grant them a second marriage license.
37. Copts blame Shenouda for the "bribes" of marriage authorizations in the church
Date of source: Monday, August 13, 2007
Defrocked Coptic Orthodox clergymen blame Pope Shenouda and influential bishops for receiving bribes and discriminating against the poor, yet church figures deny the allegations and stress the church’s decency.
39. Marriage through a church decision
Date of source: Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Aḥmad al-Sa‘dāwī discussed the issue of divorce among Copts in Egypt, referring to the recent marriage of the Coptic actress Hālah Ṣidqī as a case in point of Coptic divorcees receiving permission from the church to re-marry.
7. Andrew and Nancy are under the custody of their mother and Mario and Andrew are under the custody of the Muslim father
Date of source: Saturday, August 4, 2007 to Friday, August 10, 2007
There is no legislative standard in determining who is granted custody of the children in case of the parents’ divorce as a result of the father’s conversion. Similar cases are treated on a different basis with different results. An Egyptian lawyer said the situation was menacing sectarian sedition...
1. Editorial
Date of source: Monday, November 5, 2007
AWR’s press release about IGMF statements on Dr. Ḥamdī Zaqzūq resulted in a press conference attended by Egyptian media. Comments on stories about forced conversions.
33. The unified personal status law forces Copts to embrace Islam
Date of source: Monday, July 30, 2007
Muḥammad al-Bāz discusses the Coptic unified personal status law that was prepared in 1978 but has never been certified. al-Bāz believes that the law will increase the sufferings of Copts as it will close the door to divorce and will leave Copts, who have problems in their marital lives, with only...
26. A Christian wife argues to revoke the verdict of her divorce ruling because her husband, who converted to Islam in order to divorce her, is still attending Christian church services
Date of source: Monday, July 30, 2007
A Christian wife has filed a lawsuit that calls for the nullification of a divorce ruling she previously received. The wife’s appeal is based on evidence that her husband, who claimed to have embraced Islam in order to divorce her, was seen regularly attending Christian services.
44. A pastor and his son were sustained following violations in marriage and divorce issues in al-Fayyum
Date of source: Monday, July 16, 2007
A defrocked pastor and his son pass themselves off as Evangelical pastors and issue distorted conversion and marriage documents.
4. Upon her husband’s conversion to Maronism, a Coptic Orthodox wife asks for khul‘ and discovered that her marriage contract was invalid because it was signed by a defrocked priest
Date of source: Monday, July 16, 2007
A Christian woman, allegedly Coptic Orthodox, files a claim against the pastor who signed her marriage contract, accusing him of falsification.
46. Trivialising the religion box
Date of source: Sunday, June 24, 2007
The author discusses the Minister of Labor ‘Ā’ishah ‘Abd al-Hādī’s response to the International Labour Organization’s report which claimed that Copts were discriminated against in Egypt. She claims that Copts are ten per cent of the Egyptian population, and control 30 per cent of the Egyptian...

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