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Date of source: Sunday, March 12, 2017
Dear esteemed Egyptian church leaders,
In the previous part of my letter, I said that I would write to you this open, transparent discourse after the Personal Status Code was returned to the churches so as to yield language consented upon by all Christian communities. This letter includes...
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This interview concerns the court case of four members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) who had been arrested right before the upcoming parliamentary elections in November 1995. Aḥmad al-Khawāja, Head of the Lawyer’s Syndicate, not an Islamist himself but the lawyer representing the MB...
Date of source: Friday, April 29, 2016
The Cairo Center for Development prasied an administrative judge’s ruling requiring children of ‘Urfī marriages to be registered temporarily with the father’s name until a judge makes final ruling regarding the paternity of the child. The Center explained its praise saying that the ruling follows...
Date of source: Friday, April 29, 2016
The conflict between the Copts over personal status laws entered a new phase as many are beginning to resort to ‘Urfī marriages in light of the difficulties many face in getting divorces. Coptic jurists consider ‘Urfī marriage adultery which therefore guarantees no rights to either the husband or...
Date of source: Sunday, April 12, 2015
Dr. Yāsir Burhāmī, Vice President of the Salafist Call, has spoken out about a number of matters dealt with by the Egyptian courts, specifically divorce and khulʿ(practice of Islamic law whereby a woman seeks a divorce from her husband but must give him compensation). He declared that divorce in...
Date of source: Sunday, April 12, 2015
Dr. Yāsir Burhāmī, Vice President of the Salafist Call, has spoken out about a number of matters dealt with by the Egyptian courts, specifically divorce and khulʿ(practice of Islamic law whereby a woman seeks a divorce from her husband but must give him compensation). He declared that divorce in...
Date of source: Thursday, February 11, 1999
At last the 13 Coptic Christian churches agreed on the project of the unified personal
status law for the Christians, and it was sent to the Ministry of Justice. Now
they are forming a committee, which consists of some Christian religious men
and representatives of the legislative department in...
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