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Date of source: Monday, July 30, 2007
A Christian wife has filed a lawsuit that calls for the nullification of a divorce ruling she previously received. The wife’s appeal is based on evidence that her husband, who claimed to have embraced Islam in order to divorce her, was seen regularly attending Christian services.
Date of source: Sunday, July 29, 2007
The conversion of a father sheds negative light on the life of the children and mother. The following lines present another case of a father’s conversion that badly affected the children and their mother.
Date of source: Monday, July 30, 2007
Fādī Emile discusses the problem of the Christian-born twins, Mario and Andrew, whose father’s conversion to Islam forced them to be registered as Muslims. Emile interviews the twins to speak about their perplexing problem.
Date of source: Sunday, July 29, 2007
The Egyptian judicial system lacks the unified stance and rules that regulate the cases of conversion and its consequences at the Department of Civil Status.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Talāl Naṣr criticizes the use of media in attacking religions. He believes that the issue of converting from one religion to another should be kept a personal affair. Nasr exclaims that problems in Egypt have nothing to do with religion but with the corruption of the ruling regime.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 17, 2007
A Coptic lawyer calls the minister of interior to re-authorize the advising and guidance committees for Christians intending convert to Islam. He highlights Egypt’s poor reputation among human rights organization’s due to rumors about forcing Coptic girls to convert to Islam.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Islamic writer Jamal al-Banna states that it has been quite common for Christians and Jews to convert to Islam to avoid persecution and then leave the religion when the danger has passed.
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Date of source: Sunday, June 17, 2007
Two 13-year-old Christian kids were forced to sit an Islamic education exam at school after their father’s conversion to Islam. Their mother filed a claim and complained to the civil status court.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Counselor Najīb Jibrā’īl lodged an appeal against the memorandum of state adviser Maḥmūd Rajab in which he stated that Islam should be imposed on Christian children whose fathers have converted to Islam.
Date of source: Monday, June 4, 2007
The Administrative Court realized the danger of conversion to Islam for fulfilling personal aims before asking to re-embrace Christianity. The author argues that the church authorization of divorce will solve complicated problems of conversion.
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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.