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All Copts and church leaders in Egypt and all over the world condemned Sharon?s practices against the
Palestinians and the fact that the Israeli forces attacked the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem and prevented
worshipping in it for the first time in history. They asked different countries all...
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The Cairo Court of Appeal said
that Israel is the first beneficiary of the law of khula? which can destroy the Egyptian society and its Islamic and
Arabic traditions. The deputy of the patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church in Egypt said that khula? is a new civil
legislation not known in...
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[Khul‘‘ is wife?s request for divorce in return for the dowry and gifts she had received from
him].
Pope Shenouda expressed his satisfaction at the fact that the court rejected the khula? request of a
Coptic wife. He said that the decision was based on the teachings of Christianity and reflected...
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Asharq al-Awsat and al-Musawwar interviewed a leader of the Gama?at al-Islāmīyah and asked him about how the Gama?at were established, the conditions in which the initiative of denouncing violence was declared and the reasons behind their ideological reconsideration. Akher Saa interviewed a...
Date of source: Friday, March 22, 2002
The Cairo Personal Status Court refused to hear the first case of khula? filed by a
Christian wife. The court based its judgment on the on the commandment of the Bible that the wife should not be
separated from her husband except for marital unfaithfulness. Lawyers of other Coptic wives asking...
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[Khul‘‘ is wife?s request for
divorce in return for the dowry and gifts she had received from him].
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Egypt?s new Muftī stressed that there will be coordination among the different
Islamic institutions to arrive at a unified Islamic opinion and to help people avoid confusion that results from
contradictory Fatāwá. He said that he is a son of the Azhar and so he will be keen on not issuing Fatāwá...
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The dean of the
Faculty of Dār al-‘Ulūm said that Shaykh Attya Saqr?s Fatwá that considers handshaking between men and women H...
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The book Dianetics which was reported to preach a new religion, that
is Scientology, received great attention from the Egyptian press. Many papers scanned the contents of the book and
commented on them. All papers touched upon the issue connected between the new religion and attempts on the part...
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Some papers claimed that the Shaykh of the Azhar refused
to extend the period in office of Dr. Nasser Farid Wassel as a Muftī for Egypt and appointed instead of him Dr. Ahmad
El-Tayyeb because the former Muftī issued many Fatāwá that corticated his Fatāwá. Other papers shed light on the...