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Date of source: Sunday, November 5, 2006
Last March the administrative court issued a ruling which aroused huge controversy when it decreed that the pope of the Coptic Church could issue remarriage permits to Coptic couples who had obtained divorce rulings from civil courts, but not marriage annulments from the church. The ruling was...
Date of source: Sunday, November 5, 2006
Father Nasīf writes in response to Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb, the former muftī of Egypt, who accused Christianity of being a religion that calls for violence and where reason is absent.
Date of source: Sunday, November 5, 2006
The court session of the lawsuit initiated by Shaykh Yūsuf al-Badrī was postponed until 16 of January, 2007. On the same date, a session will be held to discuss a lawsuit promoting a new Christian denomination.
Date of source: Monday, October 30, 2006
The review deals with the plans
by the Muslim Brotherhood group to dominate the trade unions through the elections as Brotherhood members threaten
to establish unions parallel with the government’s if elections were rigged, amidst statements by chief
Muhammad Mahdī ‘Ākif that the group is...
Date of source: Friday, October 20, 2006
The Commissioner’s Authority of the State Council delivered its report
regarding the appeal of Pope Shenouda against the decree of the administrative court that obliged him to give
permission for remarriage to divorcees. The ruling of the lower court was declared to be illegal and...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 25, 1997
Discussion about the issue of divorce in the Coptic church, the ten conditions under which divorce was allowed in the 1938 law, and Pope Shenouda’s rejection of these conditions.
Date of source: Friday, June 27, 1997
Initially Dr. Abdel Fatah Ali, former minister of health, forbade the circumcision of girls by unqualified persons, in other words, recognizing that medical practitioners could do the job. Nevertheless, especially among doctors, opposition to female circumcision is strong. Dr. Ismail Salam, Dr. Ali...
Date of source: Sunday, July 16, 2006
Watani interviews one of the founders of the political party Misr al-Umm, which was recently denied a license by the Administrative Court because its platform clashed with the Egyptian constitution and the sharī‘ah due to its emphasis on secularism.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 20, 2006
The
Supreme
Administrative Court has adjourned two appeals by Pope Shenouda and the Ministry of Interior until
September
16, 2006
Date of source: Tuesday, July 18, 2006
A quarrel broke out at the Administrative Court between the president of the Bar Association and the Muslim
Brotherhood
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