Date of source: Sunday, December 12, 1999
Youssef Sidhom gives an example of how the decree of the ten conditions issued by Ezabi Pasha (the Hamayouni law) affects the relations between the applicants for building churches and the state system through presenting a case history of one recent church building projects in Shubra Al-Kheima. He...
Date of source: Monday, November 30, 1998
Since the issue of the Ottoman decree known as the Hamayouni law in 1856 that concerns the building of churches, Christians have disagreed on whether this law is a blessing or a curse. The building of churches at that time equated mosque building with church building on condition that approval is...