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Representative of the Egyptian Church to Be Included to the Permanent Experts Committee of Protection of Manuscripts
Date of source: Sunday, November 25, 2018
On behalf of the Egyptian Government, the Minister of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs ʿUmar Marwān (Omar Marawan) required the adding of the representative of the Egyptian Church to the permanent committee of technical, legal and administrative experts on the protection of manuscripts.
Pastor Rifʿat Fikrī: The New Code of Personal Status does not Address Contemporary Problems
Date of source: Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Pastor Rifʿat Fikrī, President of the Media Committee of the Egyptian Council of Churches, stated that the Egyptian church returned the code of personal status for Copts to Counselor Majdī al-ʿAjātī, Minister of Legal Affairs and Parliament, to discuss and amend it.
7. Minya Shooter: "A Normal Man"
Date of source: Friday, January 14, 2011
This article reports on various sources, all denying that policeman ‘Āmir ‘Āshūr, who allegedly shot dead a Copt and injured five others on a train, had any mental problems. According to Minister of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Mufīd Shihāb this rules out any “sectarian motives behind the...
6. The view from Rome
Date of source: Sunday, May 16, 2010
Anba Barnaba, Bishop of Rome, talks to Watani about the Copts in Italy and those in Egypt. He speaks of immigration, integration, discrimination, and the Egyptian nationality for all Copts.
15. A Coptic researcher comments on the 37 presidential decrees issued concerning church building since 2005, and not the 138 that Mufīd Shihāb alleged
Date of source: Friday, April 16, 2010
The author reports on research by ‘Ādil Jundī, who comments on the real number of presidential decrees regarding building churches.
77. Shihāb to the assistant to the US Secretary of State: “Egypt has taken steps to improve human rights conditions and there are still steps we hope to take”
Date of source: Sunday, January 17, 2010
Mufīd Shihāb discusses human rights conditions in Egypt with the assistant of the American Secretary of State for Democracy and Human Rights Affairs. .
33. Bishop Bishuy: the church has not supported Jamal Mubarak to be president but that was the pope’s opinion
Date of source: Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Bishop Bīshūy comments on current issues in the Coptic Orthodox Church and society, including Muslim-Christian relations.
24. On with the campaign.
Date of source: Sunday, November 16, 2008
As a new parliamentary session gets under way, Watani International reignites the issue of the unified law for houses of worship.
56. Campaigning for the [unified houses of worship] law (Original in English. Not edited by AWR)
Date of source: Sunday, October 19, 2008
Watanī presents different opinions toward the draft unified law for houses of worship. The opinions include those of members of parliament and Shūrá Council members.
46. Campaigning for the law
Date of source: Sunday, October 12, 2008
In the last three months Watanī newspaper has pushed hard for the unified law for building houses of worship to be discussed in the parliament. In this article Watanī presents a collection of opinions of members of parliament toward the proposed law.
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