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Date of source: Sunday, January 28, 2024
The al-Nuzha Misdemeanor Court sentenced musician Aḥmad Ḥijāzī to six months in prison and a bail of 2,000 Egyptian pounds (roughly $64.65) on charges of contempt of religion after he appeared in a video singing verses the Holy Qurʾān to the tune of the oud.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 6, 2024
The Ṭanṭā Economic Court sentenced Coptic young man Kyrullus Rifʿat Nāshid to six-month suspended imprisonment term and a fine of EGP100,000 (roughly $3,235) on charges of contempt of Christianity and infringement of family principles and values.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 7, 2024
The Coptic Orthodox archdiocese of al-Minūfīya in the town of Shibīn al-Kūm entrusted Mīlād Isṭifānūs ʿAjāybī, a lower with the Court of Cassation and Supreme Constitutional Court, to take all the legal procedures for reconciliation with a Coptic Christian on a misdemeanor case.
Date of source: Saturday, February 3, 2024
A dilemma that involves the issue of many injustices related to Christians’ personal status has been dominating the question of inheritance for Christians in most, if not all, Arab countries. However, Jordan has courageously approached this thorny affair, and come up with a solution that might...
Date of source: Saturday, January 20, 2024
Mufīda ʿAbd al-Raḥman, the renowned first Egyptian female lawyer, participated in the activities of the committee on personal status law amendments in late 1950s and contributed to enacting legislations regulating family-related affairs, including marriage and divorce.
Date of source: Thursday, January 18, 2024
Dr. Andrēa Zakī, President of the Evangelical community in Egypt, said that there have been many rounds and lots of discussions on the unified personal status law, which ended up in agreement over 90% of the items.
Date of source: Monday, January 1, 2024
Islamic preacher, ʿEṣām al-Rūbī, affirmed that all the personal status laws in Egypt are 100% based on the provisions of the Islamic sharīʿa, adding that the law on khulʿ was mentioned in the Holy Qurʾān.
Date of source: Sunday, December 31, 2023
Between inspiring and decisive humanitarian positions to stop disputes and to protect feelings and sanctities, al-Azhar has spent the year of 2023 leading campaigns on all religious and political levels, from protecting the Holy Qurʾān when it was burned in a number of European nations, to assuming...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Today, December 13, marks the death anniversary of Shaykh Maḥmūd Shaltūt, an imām who was responsible for some of the largest religious discourse renewals in the 20th century, with illuminating and unprecedented contributions made in the service of the Islamic sharīʿa.
Date of source: Friday, December 15, 2023
The Maronite denomination emerged in Egypt in 1745, when the Aleppo monk, Mūsa Hilāna, consecrated al-Bārija, the first Maronite church in Damietta (Dumyāṭ), as well as in Egypt and Africa.
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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.