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After seven years of examination, the Administrative Court rejected a lawsuit filed by Rev. Samuel Mishriqi of the Pentecostal Church against Rev. Safwat Al-Bayadi, head of the Evangelical Maglis el-Mili [Community Council]. Mishriqi asked for not enforcing the decision of the council concerning...
The Administrative Court rejected an appeal by Pope Shenouda to halt the application of a court ruling in favor of deposed Father Andraous Aziz, whom the church alleges conducting marriages without a license.
A paper presented at the annual interfaith dialogue meeting of the Anglican communion and the Permanent Committee of the Azhar al-Sharif for Dialogue with the Monotheistic Religions that prompted criticism from Metropolitan Seraphim for the portrayal of Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt.
The Administrative Court will decide next week about a lawsuit filed by a Coptic lawyer against the Minister of Interior over the Hamayouni law concerning the procedure for obtaining permits for church building. The lawyer argues that the Ministry of Interior has issued a decree regulating church...
The review deals with the issue of Coptic divorce and Egyptian Orthodox Pope Shenouda’s position rejecting a recent court ruling allowing divorced Copts to remarry.
The author argues that while Copts are demanding the application of rulings by the Administrative Court requiring the Interior Ministry to print new identity cards for Christian converts, Pope Shenouda has refused to apply the rulings of the same court concerning remarriage for Coptic divorcees.
The article reports on a ruling issued lately by the Administrative Court which requires the Egyptian Church to give permission to Christian divorcees to re-marry, a ruling which is rejected by Pope Shenouda.
The Egyptian Administrative Court postponed a hearing in the lawsuit filed by a Coptic attorney, demanding the redemption of the Egyptian Deir Al-Sultan in eastern Jerusalem and handing it over to the Coptic Orthodox Church, to a court session on May 5.
The author read the Administrative Court’s ruling permitting three presenters from the Alexandria television channel to appear on screen wearing hijāb [veil covering a woman’s hair]. The court’s judgment considered the decision taken by the Minister of Information a violation to the principle of "...
Issues of personal status and dismissed priests show that there is a discrepancy between civil and ecclesiastical rules. The church considers dismissing mistaken clergymen part of its authority. Still, the court deals with the decisions of the church administratively that can be appealed before the...

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