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Date of source: Saturday, September 24, 2005 to Friday, September 30, 2005
The Ministry of Justice has distributed a leaflet to personal status courts and marriage registry offices prohibiting marriage contracts being registered by two defrocked Evangelical pastors.
Date of source: Saturday, September 18, 2004
Dr. Soad Saleh, the head of the department of compared jurisprudence at the Azhar University, proposed her idea of creating a committee for women's fatwas to be affiliated with the Dar Al-Iftaa [House of fatwa-giving] to the current Grand Mufti Dr. Clearly enough, Dr. Soad has been totally...
Date of source: Saturday, May 15, 2004
A husband whose wife gets divorce based on the personal status code for Orthodox Copts, regulating the affairs of marriage and divorce and other related matters, filed a lawsuit in which he challenged the code unconstitutional. The complainant argues the Holy Bible, which is the first source of...
Date of source: Saturday, May 7, 2005
“We are all aware of our stifling economic problems, security threats by Israel, US pressures, large disparities between the classes, the emergency law and corruption. Those problems of course prompt the emergence of true popular movements that target real reforms,” said Egyptian intellectual...
Date of source: Friday, December 17, 2004
On December 9, 2004, the Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR) demanded that the Ministry of Justice investigate the burning of two mosques,
one in Arizona and the other in Massachusetts. CAIR is the largest organization for Muslim
American civil rights in the U.S. The Ministry of Justice...
Date of source: Monday, April 26, 2004
The Minister of Justice issued the confidential decree to give the sheikhs of the Azhar the right to “judicial seizure.” That means they will be able to attack any publishing house and search it for banned books at any moment.
Whoever has “judicial seizure” authority has the right to break into a...
Date of source: Thursday, June 3, 2004
The Grand Imam attempted to calm the worries [of the public] concerning the decision to give jurisdiction of judicial confiscation to Al-Azhar’s inspectors.. He explained that the publications that are outlined in this decision do not fall under the category of creativity, but rather conflict with...
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2005
A press conference was convened on Tuesday 16, February, for Armanius’ family that lost four of its members in an offensive accident discovered on 14, January 2005. The US Coptic Organization, in the presence of representatives from different American and international human rights organizations...
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2005
Wearing a niqāb has become a haunting issue that rises every now and then; women insist on wearing it and disrespecting security aspects and customs of the society.
Date of source: Saturday, November 17, 2001 to Friday, November 23, 2001
A Christian actress failed to obtain divorce from her husband after eight years of her case being examined by courts. So she changed her denomination from Coptic Orthodox to Syrian Orthodox to force her case to be examined according to the personal status law for Muslims. Furthermore, to hasten...
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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.