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Document: The Grounds for Ruling on Inheritance Equality between Male and Female Copts
Date of source: Sunday, January 5, 2020
The Egyptian family court in Ḥilwān filed the grounds of its ruling, which was based on the enforcement of the statute of Orthodox Copts regarding inheritance distribution. It resulted in Coptic lawyer Hudā Naṣr Allāh and her brothers receiving the same share of inheritance. 
Egypt – Court ruling returns inheritance rights to Christian woman
Date of source: Tuesday, November 26, 2019
On Monday an Egyptian court ruled in favour of Hudā Naṣr Allāh, a lawyer who had demanded to inherit the same share as her brothers. This historic ruling was praised by many human rights defenders, Copts and women. The human rights lawyer Hudā Naṣr Allāh wrote on her Facebook page, “Finally a...
A Coptic lawyer asks churches to put inheritance articles into the new personal status law for Copts
Date of source: Friday, April 19, 2019
Nabīl Ghabriyyāl, a Coptic lawyer in cassation, called on church representatives, who recently met to discuss the new personal status bill for non-Muslims (the new family law for Copts), to draw up a text organizing the distribution of inheritance for Christians.   
21. Articles two and three of the new constitution have maintained national unity
Date of source: Thursday, December 5, 2013
According to the author, articles two and three of the new constitution have maintained national unity as Article II stated that Islam is the religion of the state and Article III gave rights to Copts and Jews to refer to their own codes in personal status and religious affairs. Dr. Abd al-Fattāh...
12. Al Nūr Party insist on keeping Article 3
Date of source: Thursday, October 10, 2013
  Salāh Abdul Ma’būd, the representative of the Nūr Party in the Constituent Assembly, that they insist on keeping Article 3. He stated, “We refuse to replace ‘Jews and Christians’ with ‘non-Muslims’”. He stated that amending it to read “non-Muslims” “opens the door to evil” (Wahīd Sha’bān, Gihān...
5. Al-Nūr Party has warned against amending the article.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Al-Nūr Party has warned against amending the article. Dr. Sha’baān Abdal ‘Alīm, the assistant secretary general of the party, stated that amending the third article may allow the marriage of gays and stated that Islam only recognizes Christianity and Judaism.
4. Karīmah Kāmil: "There Must be Civil Rules that Organize the Relationship between Copts and the State"
Date of source: Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Karīmah Kāmil, journalist, stated that the third article of the constitution is a trap and despite this some people see it as in the interests of Copts.
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