Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
A visiting American delegation hailed the role played by the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) in supporting freedoms and the content of its annual reports.
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
The author reports the repeated postponement of
Pope
Shenouda’s meeting with the new members of the al-Majlis al-Millī due to the top Coptic
prelate’s
busy schedule.
Date of source: Friday, May 19, 2006
The author
criticizes Pope Shenouda’s recent
contradictory decision regarding many important issues that concern Copts in
Egypt.
Date of source: Friday, May 19, 2006
Rose al-Yousuf magazine continues its reportage on the
controversial issue of divorce and Coptic Christianity.
Date of source: Sunday, May 14, 2006
A church
source explains that publishing the pictures of defrocked priests was not to
expose them but to warn other Copts
against them. Because there are no special laws specifying clergymen’s
uniforms, defrocked priests can commit
irregularities.
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
The author publishes the text of the reasons on which the Administrative Judiciary Court relied to give its controversial sentence compelling Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria to grant permit for a second marriage to a Copt who divorced his wife by a court ruling.
Date of source: Sunday, May 14, 2006
The
author focuses on the Coptic library of Mar Marqus which contains a
large number of rare manuscripts and books, as
well as Pope Shenouda’s decision to appoint 40 Coptic public
figures to the library’s board of
trustees.
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
The church has
given a decision stripping a priest in al-Jīza of his
priesthood after being found guilty of collecting
funds for himself in the name of the Coptic cathedral.
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
Kamāl Zākhir, the author,
argues that the church became involved in politics and ’the
world’ to serve some worldly interests that have
nothing to do with its spiritual mission.
Date of source: Monday, May 15, 2006
The
court ruling previously pronounced by a lower administrative court giving Bahā’īs the rights to
state their religion in official documents is overturned by the Supreme Administrative Court.