Date of source:
The US Commission for International Religious Freedom refused to issue a
report about its visit to Israel, which aimed at investigating the religious situation there. The Secretary
General
of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights considered this evidence of using the file of
religious...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 1, 2006
Bahā’īs are waiting for
July 2007 when they will find out the final decision from UNESCO on whether some of their gardens will be
recognized as international cultural sites.
Date of source: Saturday, October 14, 2006 to Friday, October 20, 2006
The State Commissioners Authority submitted its final report on the
controversial issue of Bahā’īs to the Supreme Administrative Court, a few months after
the Administrative Judicial Court, headed by Judge Fārūq ‘Abd al-Qādir, recognized
the rights of Egyptian Bahā’īs to have their religion...
Date of source: Saturday, October 14, 2006
The author conducted an interview with Dr ‘Abd al-Sabūr Shāhīn
on Western attacks on
Islam and the role of Islam in Egyptian society.
Date of source: Sunday, October 8, 2006
The Administrative Court ruling issued last April in favour of the
right of
Bahā’ī citizens to be acknowledged and to indicate their faith on official documents
divided
public opinion into supporters and opponents, although a same ruling was issued in 1983.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 20, 2006
This paper was written for the occasion of the U.N. International Day of Peace, September 21, 2006, and discusses the topic, the Bahā’ī Perspective on World Peace. In the historical analysis at the beginning, an internalization of trade and law is analysed with the development of a tight network of...
Date of source: Friday, September 15, 2006
A
grandfather issues a
law suit against his Bahā’ī daughter and asks for his grandson’s custody.
Date of source: Monday, September 18, 2006
This article focuses on the history of the Bahā’ī in
Egypt, their civil situation, their traditions
and their social and legal lives.
Date of source: Sunday, September 17, 2006
The
2006
international religious freedom report released by the U.S. State Department indicated that the
Egyptian
constitution provides for freedom of belief and the practice of religious rites, but the government
places
restrictions on them.
Date of source: Saturday, September 9, 2006
Reactions vary between accepting or rejecting the idea of deleting the religion reference from Egyptian identity cards. People of both opinions express their arguments in this article.