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Date of source: Thursday, March 6, 2008
The Supreme Administrative Court in Egypt issued a controversial ruling that guarantees Christian divorcees the right to a second marriage. The Coptic Orthodox Church rejects the ruling and declares that there is no authority on Earth that can oblige the church to go against their conscience....
Date of source: Thursday, September 20, 2007
Coptic lawyer Mamdūḥ Ramzī has accused the President of the Clerical Council Bishop Bula of taking bribes from divorced men and women in order to grant them a second marriage license.
Date of source: Sunday, August 5, 2007
The disappearance of minor Christian girls continues. More and more of these types of stories are circulating, characterized only by the differences in personalities and places.
Date of source: Thursday, March 29, 2007
The article represents the different viewpoints of the Muslims and Copts regarding Coptic-Muslim relations in Egypt and the political agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Date of source: Monday, November 27, 2006
Divorce issues pose serious problems in many Copts’ private life and are causing a severe conflict between the state and the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Date of source: Sunday, October 22, 2006
Bishop Bula of Tantā asserted in a national unity meeting held in Mār Mina monastery
that Maximus is an American-made priest. He indicated that Maximus’ split was a step taken by the United
States to
infiltrate the church, because it considers the later an obstacle to normalization between Egypt...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Bishop Bula
asserted in the national unity Suhūr
that the United States uses Bishop Maximus to create sectarian
strife in response to the Church’s stands
against the normalization with Israel and to Pope Shenouda’s
refusal to visit Jerusalem.
Date of source: Sunday, May 14, 2006
In this interview Bishop Boulā of
Tantā
and the head of the clerical council speaks about Coptic personal status problems.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 10, 2006
The article discusses the weekly Friday sermon and the
poor
performance of the preachers, whom many view as insufficient to stand on the minbar [a pulpit inside
the mosque] and deliver sermons to Muslim worshippers.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 26, 2006
An interview
with Bishop Bula, the
head of the Clerical Council, and the man who is in charge of giving marriage permits
to Copts on the changing
marital problems in Egypt.
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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.