Date of source: Sunday, July 27, 2008
Hānī Samīr wrote in al-Dustūr about the confusion of Christians over the amendment of the 1938 regulation and the unified personal status law. He describes the comments of various people involved in the situation.
Date of source: Monday, December 31, 2007
A Christian born woman is accused of distorting official documents. Both Shādyā al-Sīsī and her mother did not know about her father’s accidental conversion. Shādyā is accused of changing her religion on official papers.
Date of source: Sunday, October 19, 2008
A press conference was organized by the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organisation to give reporters an opportunity to meet Camilia Lutfi and her twin sons Andrew and Mario. However the mother and her children did not turn up.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 15, 2008
The author discusses marriages between Muslims and Christians, drawing on the opinions of sociologists and psychologists as to why people are falling in love across religious lines and why this seems to be such a problem in Egyptian society.
Date of source: Thursday, October 9, 2008
Lawyers representing a Coptic woman call on People’s Assembly Speaker Ahmad Fathī Surūr to stop a court ruling granting custody of her two children to their Muslim father.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 30, 2008
The ex-husband of actress Hālah Sidqī has obtained a ruling from the administrative judiciary allowing him to remarry, however Pope Shenouda has appealed against it.
Date of source: Thursday, October 2, 2008
The Christian mother embroiled in a lawsuit with her ex-husband over the custody of their two children has claimed that she will not give custody of her children over to her Muslim husband.
Date of source: Sunday, September 28, 2008
The Alexandria Court of Appeals has ruled that the Muslim father of two Christian boys should be given custody of his children.
Date of source: Friday, September 26, 2008
A court ruling has given Mario and Andrew’s Muslim father custody of his two Christian children
Date of source: Thursday, June 5, 2008
The Community Council of the Coptic Orthodox Church conducted amendments to the Personal Status Law of Copts known as the law of 1938. The Egyptian media shed light on the issue and the different reactions to it.