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Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church has spoken on the current status of Copts in Egypt whilst welcoming a French delegation of politicians, journalists, and writers. When asked whether Copts were persecuted in Egypt, Pope Tawāḍrūs II explained that this was not the case under President...
On the morning of the 15th of December and within the framework of the draft legislation of the Personal Status Laws that was funded by the German Embassy, the Center for Egyptian Women Legal Assistance held a discussion entitled “Personal Status Laws: between Reality and Aspirations”. Those...
The Sohag [Sūhāj] Family Court has ruled that the husband’s conversion to Islam is not sufficient cause to grant his Christian wife a divorce, refusing to apply the official statute of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Professor of Islamic Thought and Philosophy at al-Azhar University Āmna Nuṣayr has sparked a heated debate on social media after stating that nothing in Islam prevents a Muslim woman from marrying a non-Muslim man.
The Tunisian president's call for the [permissibility] of marriages between a Muslim woman to a non-Muslim man and equality in inheritance between men and women sparked a widespread heated controversy in Egypt more than any other Arab and Islamic country. 
The author discusses marriages between Muslims and Christians, drawing on the opinions of sociologists and psychologists as to why people are falling in love across religious lines and why this seems to be such a problem in Egyptian society.
Zaynab Radwan, the deputy speaker of the parliament and a professor of Sharī‘ah recentlysubmitted a number of proposals to Parliament. Amongst other things, the proposals called for Bahā’īs’ rights to obtain formal documents and stated that Christian wives of Muslim men should be able to have a...
The Islamic Shari’a is the main source of legislation in Egypt. It states that Islamic laws should not be applied to the personal status cases of non-Muslims. The laws of their religions are to be applied to them. However, personal status law No. 462/1955 contains nine grounds for divorce in...
Dr. Nabil Luqa Bebawi strongly objects to the new eight reasons allowing divorce [for Coptic Christians] in the regulation of al-Maglis al-Mileli [Community Council], outside of adultery. Dr. Bebawi says that these reasons are unrelated to the Bible. As an alternative to this regulation, Dr....
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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