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Date of source: Wednesday, January 2, 2013
The Administrative Court witnessed yesterday, January 1 the withdrawal of a lawsuit filed by a Coptic citizen against the Coptic Orthodox Bishop Pachomius, the acting Patriarch, and Father Yūhannā ‘Atá of Mār Jirjis Church (Saint George Church). The plaintiff claimed damages after the Church had...
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: Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Badrān: Personal status laws are creating a new generation of children on the streets
Doctor Hudā Badrān, the President of the Egyptian Women’s Union, said that Personal Status Laws are most focused on the role of the family, adding that the laws treat women as they were treated decades ago. She...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 29, 2015
The National Council for Women submits proposal to get women into leadership roles
At a UNESCO conference called “Freedom of the Press in the World Today” Egyptian Ambassador Mīrfat al-Tālawī said that for her, the value of the conference lies in getting to know the challenges facing women in...
Date of source: Monday, October 3, 2011
The crisis of remarriage in the Coptic Orthodox Church surfaced again but this time with more violent steps on the part of seekers of remarriage licenses after they announced that they "resigned" from the Orthodox denomination but would not join another.
Date of source: Sunday, September 18, 2011
A church source has revealed that Pope Shenouda III, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, is currently examining the crisis of collective resignations from the Orthodox denomination, initiated by the Right to Live Movement at the end of last week.
Date of source: Saturday, July 9, 2011
"Awake and arise, Christians, we will not say it to the priests, the archbishops or the pope…we are not in a jungle" - were chants of Copts denied remarriage.
The agonized cries echoed on the stairs of the Ministry of Justice on July 8 as they protested about church laws on marriage and divorce....
Date of source: Friday, July 8, 2011
“Awake and arise, Christians, we will not say it to the priests, the archbishop or the pope… we are not in a jungle” - chants of Copts, deprived of second marriage, echoed on the stairs of the Ministry of Justice July 7 as they protested about church laws on marriage and divorce.
Demonstrators...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 5, 2011
The “Copts’ right to divorce” movement is calling for the “necessary” adoption of a personal status law, which would shatter the deadlock of the church law, and would be applied it to all Copts without discrimination. The movement has called for a demonstration this coming Thursday in front on the...
Date of source: Sunday, August 15, 2010
The group "Support Copts in getting a divorce" is leaning towards establishing an assembly for the group, and sends a letter to the minister of justice requesting that he legislate a civil law for Copts.
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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.