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Date of source: Tuesday, April 16, 2019
MP Sharʿī Ṣāliḥ expressed his approval of the proposed constitutional amendments. As a result, Parliament Speaker ʿAlī ʿAbd al-ʿĀl praised his vision, particularly with regard to allocating 25 percent of the parliamentary seats to women.
Date of source: Monday, April 15, 2019
Dr. Usāma al-ʿAbd, Chairman of the Religious Affairs and Endowments Committee in the House of Representatives, received on Monday morning, Dr. Per Axel Frelenksdorf, Deputy Ambassador at the Embassy of Sweden in Cairo, and Joachim Bergström, special envoy of the Organization of Islamic...
Date of source: Friday, April 12, 2019
The House of Representatives will discuss constitutional amendments on the 16th and 17th of April.
Women MPs presented to the House of Representatives how women benefit from the constitutional amendments.
Date of source: Saturday, April 13, 2019
After 57 years of demands by the Coptic Orthodox Church to the state for the adoption of a unified personal status law, the Christian communities finally agreed on a draft law, to solve the Coptic crisis of “divorce and the second marriage.”
Date of source: Monday, April 15, 2019
Jamīl Halīm, the Catholic Church’s legal advisor, said that the transfer of the project of Coptic Personal Status laws to the government would be complete by mid-May next year. This will pave the way toward submitting it to the House of Representatives.
Date of source: Friday, April 12, 2019
There are currently intensive moves made by the Parliament and various state institutions towards the finalization of a personal status law draft in order to control the family disintegration and maintain the stability in society.
MP Muhammad Fūad said that the existing Personal Status Law no...
Date of source: Saturday, April 13, 2019
Counselor Yūsuf Ṭalʿat, legal representative of the Evangelical Church, revealed the details of the meeting of the heads of the Egyptian churches at the papal headquarters at the Cathedral of St. Mark's in ʿAbbāsiyya.
Date of source: Friday, August 17, 2012
Several Coptic rights advocates and movements, including the 1938 Copts League, which calls for divorce and re-marriage for Christians, are protesting today (Aug. 17) outside al-Ittihādīyah presidential palace to call for abolishing personal status laws as well as amendments introduced by late...
Date of source: Friday, January 12, 2018
Atheism in Egypt has generated widespread debates in the printed media as well as on social networking websites following the 25 January 2011 Revolution, amid the growing feeling of a large sector of Egyptians of freely expressing their ideas and religious beliefs, and a shock for the Egyptian...
Date of source: Thursday, October 31, 2013
Coptic movements have welcomed the new article, but assured that it is important to draft a law conforming to the Constitution. Dr. Antwān ‘Adil, member of the Maspero Youth Union, stated that this requires a new law to regulate the building of new churches.
Dr. Sūzy Adlī, former member of the...
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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.