Displaying 31 - 33 of 33.
18. Hanna Nashid, the counselor: "I do not like repeating the words Christian and Muslim. We are all Egyptians."
Date of source: Friday, July 9, 1999
Hanna Nashid, the counselor, is the first Christian who chairs the Cairo City Council. His election was an very significant event in the face of claims of persecution of Christians. He hopes that he can develop the methods of management and enter the new century with very cultured counselors who...
1. Dr. ’Abdel Mo’ti Mohammed Bayoumi, Dean of the Faculty of Fundamentals of Religion [at Al-Azhar University]: Under the Al-Khul’a system, a husband cannot take more than what he has given his wife
Date of source: Friday, April 2, 1999
Khul’a, a new item in the Personal Status Draft Law, gives a woman the right to divorce her husband without explanation in exchange for renouncing all her rights and returning the dowry he had given for her. This interview explains the story behind the new legislation.
12. The unified law for the divorce of the Copts; when is it issued and does it solve the problems of 400,000 families?!
Date of source: Thursday, February 11, 1999
At last the 13 Coptic Christian churches agreed on the project of the unified personal status law for the Christians, and it was sent to the Ministry of Justice. Now they are forming a committee, which consists of some Christian religious men and representatives of the legislative department in...

Pages

Subscribe to