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Date of source: Wednesday, June 15, 2022
The Sohag [Sūhāj] Family Court has ruled that the husband’s conversion to Islam is not sufficient cause to grant his Christian wife a divorce, refusing to apply the official statute of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 27, 2022
Mabrūk ʿAṭiyya mocked Christ saying he is not a ‘sayyid’ (venerated leader) as most people refer to him.
Coptic Church Counselor files a lawsuit to eliminate the religion field from national identity cards
Date of source: Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Lawyer Najīb Jibrāʾīl, legal adviser to the Coptic Orthodox Church and head of the Egyptian Union Organization for Human Rights (EUOHR), filed a lawsuit on Wednesday August 25, 2021, to the Administrative Court demanding the Minister of Interior and the Civil Status Sector to remove the religion...
Date of source: Sunday, December 16, 2012
Dr. Najīb Jubrā'īl, Head of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization, said that the Muslim Brotherhood are trying to enforce the Church name in the current events even though the Church did not interfere in politics and did not incite Copts to do anything (referring to protests off the...
Date of source: Sunday, December 9, 2012
Upon the decline of the Coptic Orthodox Church to join the dialogue initiated by President Muhammad Mursῑ after several of the Constituent Assembly members have withdrawn, Archpriest Angelious Ishāq, spokesman of Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II, stated that the Church is not rejecting a meeting...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 12, 2012
In his report to the Public Prosecutor against the so-called group Ansār al-Sharī’ah, Dr. Najīb Jubrā’īl stressed that what came on the Facebook page of that group or militia is a crime, a threat to the security and safety of the homeland, causing unrest and threatening the public and social peace...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Dr. Najīb Jubrā’īl, head of the Egyptian Union of Human Rights Organization, filed a report to the newly-appointed Public Prosecutor, Tal’at ‘Abdullah, in which he asked for arresting members of the so-called Ansār al-Sharī’ah, or supporters of sharī’ah.
Date of source: Monday, December 10, 2012
The three major churches of Egypt condemned the statement of Khayrat Al-Shātir, MB’s Deputy Supreme Guide, and described it as an attempt to ignite inter-communal conflicts in Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, October 12, 2013
Najuīb Jubrā’īl, the head of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization, stated that Copts are paying the price for participating in June 30th. This is through having more than 102 of their churches burnt (Husām Abū al-Makārim, et al, al-Wafd, Oct. 12, p. 5). Read original text in Arabic.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Counselor Najῑb Jubr’ῑl, Head of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization, stated that the church does not intervene in the decision that members of her denomination take on whether to boycott the upcoming plebiscite or to vote for or against it. He added, that after January 25 Revolution...
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
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.