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Date of source: Tuesday, July 5, 2011
The “Copts’ right to divorce” movement is calling for the “necessary” adoption of a personal status law, which would shatter the deadlock of the church law, and would be applied it to all Copts without discrimination. The movement has called for a demonstration this coming Thursday in front on the...
Date of source: Monday, May 9, 2011
The Egyptian government on Sunday vowed to beef up security around churches and use anti-terror laws against those fomenting sectarian sedition after 12 people died in clashes outside a church between Muslims and Christians in an area near Cairo.
Date of source: Sunday, August 15, 2010
Kamal Zakher, the coordinator of Coptic secular bloc, is waiting for the Ministry of Justice's decision concerning the secular united personal status law for Copts.
Date of source: Sunday, August 15, 2010
The group "Support Copts in getting a divorce" is leaning towards establishing an assembly for the group, and sends a letter to the minister of justice requesting that he legislate a civil law for Copts.
Date of source: Friday, March 25, 2011
Egypt's right groups, legal experts and revolutionaries on 24 March 2011 balked at the government's approval of a draft law to criminalize protests.
Date of source: Thursday, March 10, 2011
AWR's managing director Hānī Labīb analyzes a paper that was distributed by salafīs downtown Cairo, protesting the alleged imprisonment of Kāmīliyā Shihātah, the wife of a priest who alegedly wanted to convert to Islam for divorce reasons.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
The Egyptian Minister of Endowments says that a new law regulating the building of churches is currently under study and will be drafted in the coming legislative period...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 14, 2010
The "Copts' Right to Divorce" society has expressed its optimism that a civil law on personal affairs for Copts will be passed, given the appointment of Jamāl As‘ad to the People's Assembly.
A prominent figure in the society who asked not to be identified said that As‘ad is known for his opposition...
Date of source: Sunday, October 31, 2010
Munsif Sulaymān, the representative of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the legal committee of the Ministry of Justice, said that the Personal Status Law for Christians is ready, and has been approved by the ministry following its approval by Pope Shenouda III. He says that the final step would be an...
Date of source: Sunday, June 27, 2010
This article looks at the Egyptian Court ruling allowing re-marriage, and the Christian Church’s refusal to accept it.
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.