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Date of source: Thursday, May 18, 2006
The Coptic Orthodox Church refuses to allow divorced Copts to be remarried, unless adultery has been proven.
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2006 to Friday, May 12, 2006
Rose al-Yousuf publishes the full text of the appeal made by Pope Shenouda III against a court ruling obliging him to grant permission to divorced Copts to remarry.
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
A discussion of the pope’s arguments concerning divorce in the Coptic Orthodox
Church, and the ways in which
Christian personal status issues have been handled in the past.
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
Seventy
thousand Christian women issued divorce lawsuits, but the church refuses to
admit them, the author claims.
As a result, many Christians turn to civil marriage or live with a sense of guilt.
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2006
In an
interview with October
magazine, the general director of the Religious Guidance Department at the
Ministry of Awqāf
[Endowments], Dr. Sālim ‘Abd al-Jalīl speaks out on Islam’s
position on religious
freedom.
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
A Christian man has stated
that he would even convert to Islam in
order to get his wife, who has converted to Islam, and daughter back.
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2006
A married Christian man is accused of
converting to Islam, with his cousin, in order to
take her as a second wife.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 2, 2006
A number of Muslim scholars have urged the Azhar’ s Islamic Research Academy to refute the recent controversial fatwas of the Sudanese spiritual leader, Dr. Hasan al- Turābī.
Date of source: Friday, April 21, 2006
Sudanese politician and prominent Islamist Hasan
al-Turābī explains some recent
controversial statements he made about the permissibility of Muslim
women marrying kitābīs
[People of the Scripture] and the misunderstanding of the word
hijāb in the
Qur’ān, as well as a host of political and...
Date of source: Monday, April 24, 2006
Hasan al-
Turābī’s liberal stand on women’s rights
has angered many Muslim scholars around the world. His
recent controversial fatwas, permitting
marriage between Muslim women and kitābīs
[Reviewer: People of the book: Christians and Jews]
and allowing women to lead men in communal prayers,...
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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.