Date of source: Saturday, June 3, 2006 to Friday, June 9, 2006
The
author discusses the concept of divorce in Christianity and
conditions that invalidate a marriage contract.
Date of source: Saturday, June 3, 2006 to Friday, June 9, 2006
The author discusses an
Egyptian
court ruling granting divorce to a number of Christians who, in accordance with the Christian precepts,
can
not remarry, proposing unified civil laws applied to both Muslims and Christians in personal status affairs.
Date of source: Saturday, June 3, 2006 to Friday, June 9, 2006
The Coptic author investigates the concept of adultery in Christianity and
whether the
church’s position on divorce is really protecting Christians from sliding into adultery, given
that there
are a reported 40,000 cases of Christian divorce in the Egyptian law courts.
Date of source: Sunday, June 4, 2006
This interview with Dr. Nawāl al-Sa‘dāwī deals
with the latest fuss
when she and her daughter, Muna Hilmī, appeared on a television program to call for
giving children to the
names of their mothers, not just their fathers.
Date of source: Sunday, June 4, 2006
The writer suggests the improvement of magazines, concerning Orthodox Copts in order to
completely cover issues
related to the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Date of source: Friday, June 9, 2006
The author here probes the repercussions concerning a recent
controversial
fatwa by the muftī banning statues. A number of Egyptian intellectuals and
writers have
criticized this fatwa, calling for the reform of religious discourse.
Date of source: Friday, June 2, 2006
The article tackles a symposium organized by MENA, the Egyptian official
news agency, about
Muslim-Coptic coexistence in Egypt. Participants called for sustaining citizenship, away
from any religious
sentiments and blamed the religious institutions for their negligence in this regard.
Date of source: Friday, June 2, 2006
Sāmih Fawzī says that Islamic thinker Dr. Muhammad ‘Umāra is used to attacking Christianity and the Holy Bible. Dr. ‘Umāra’s recent anti-Christian book Mulāhazāt ‘Ilmīya ‘Ala Kitāb al-Masīh fī al-Islām lil Duktour Michel Hāyik [Scientific notes on the book of Christ in Islam by...
Date of source: Friday, June 9, 2006
The author criticizes the Muslim Brotherhood’s
slogan
"Islam is the Solution" and describes it as being deceptive. He believes it does not reflect the ideology of
the group and calls for a new form of Islamic discourse.
Date of source:
The article
carry some of the confessions given by suspects in last
year’s bombings in different areas of downtown Cairo, which
killed a number of tourists and Egyptians and
wounded dozens others.