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Date of source: Wednesday, October 10, 2018
“Divorce is granted only in the case of adultery”—This is the solution the Coptic Constitution offers those who are affected by personal status crises and seek separation and divorce. The late Pope Shinūda III issued a regulation in 2008 that expanded the reasons for divorce to two: adultery...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 15, 2013
The Personal Status Law that was presented by Coptic Orthodox, Catholic and Evangelical Churches to Shūrá Council on Sunday night was welcomed by Copts marking a breakthrough for all the Christian denominations. The decision was presented after being discussed in the Ministry of Justice. Counselor...
Date of source: Monday, October 2, 2017
In response to what has been recently circulated that an Egyptian court prevented a Christian citizen from giving testimony, SaʿīdʿAbd al-Masīḥ ʿAbd Allāh, a lawyer, said that in 2016, he was able to testify before the Family Court and the judge accepted his testimony.
Date of source: Thursday, August 31, 2017
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.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Pastor Rifʿat Fikrī, President of the Media Committee of the Egyptian Council of Churches, stated that the Egyptian church returned the code of personal status for Copts to Counselor Majdī al-ʿAjātī, Minister of Legal Affairs and Parliament, to discuss and amend it.
Date of source: Saturday, June 24, 2017
With an agreement achieved surrounding the first articles of the law, and disagreement surrounding the resultant consequences, the meeting between various Christian sects on the project of a unified personal status code came to an end. The meetings and the various sects’ public...
Date of source: Thursday, March 9, 2017
One of the most important problems under the reign of Pope Kīrullus VI concerned those who were suspended from obtaining marriage permits.
Date of source: Thursday, April 28, 2016
In an interview with Al-Ahram newspaper, Counselor Munsif Najīb Sulīmān, legal advisor to the Coptic Church, discussed a number of important Church-related issues. The Houses of Worship law featured prominently in the discussion.
Date of source: Friday, April 29, 2016
The Egyptian Center for Women's Rights has prepared a new draft personal status law, and will hold a number of sessions for discussion. The Center says that it took two full years to prepare the new draft law.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 26, 2016
In his interview with Al-Waṭan, Anba Bimen, Bishop of Naqādah and Qūs in Qena and the official on charge of the Crisis Management Committee of the Orthodox Church and the ecclesial relations between Egypt and Ethiopia, is celebrating his 25th anniversary of ordination in the next month. He spoke...
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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.