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Date of source: Thursday, April 30, 2026
A cabinet meeting held on Wednesday (April 29) approved the draft of the Personal Status Law for Muslims, which introduced procedures for the first time to regulate the system of personal status for Muslims in implementation of directives by President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī to expedite the referral...
Date of source: Friday, April 17, 2026
The new family law emerges in a decisive legislative moment as an attempt to reshape the balance of relationships within the Egyptian home. The law is presented as a long-awaited victory for women and a necessary response to years of suffering with complex procedures and disputes that have...
Date of source: Monday, April 20, 2026
Bishop Bākhūm, the Patriarchal Auxiliary for Catholic Patriarchal Diocese Affairs, affirmed that statements regarding the Personal Status Law for Christians will only be issued through newspapers and media outlets accredited by the Church.
Date of source: Thursday, April 16, 2026
The government announced that the draft family law for Christians has been completed in a comprehensive manner.
Date of source: Sunday, April 19, 2026
Ṭāriq al-Muḥammadī, Deputy Chairman of the Religious Affairs Committee in the House of Representatives, said the National Front Party (NFP)’s initiative to launch a societal dialogue on the draft law on personal status affairs represents a "serious and important" step towards reforming one of the...
Date of source: Sunday, April 19, 2026
A Christian lawmaker said that the old law on personal status for Christians had many flaws, as there has been more than one separate law for each denomination, let alone the fact that the current active laws were "antiquated."
Date of source: Sunday, February 1, 2026
Underage Coptic girl Silvana ʿĀṭif Fānūs, whose family claimed she had been kidnapped but was later found by the police, has been placed in a public care home for children by order of the public prosecutor of Ṭāmya in al-Fayyūm province, some 110 km southwest of Cairo, where Silvana was found. Her...
Date of source: Friday, February 13, 2026
Journalist Ashraf Ḥilmī severely criticized the "concealment" of Coptic young girl Silvana ʿĀṭif, a minor who suffers from a mental disability, from her parents at a government care home.
Date of source: Thursday, January 22, 2026
Al-Azhar’s pavilion at the 57th Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF) is offering its visitors a book titled "Messages of the Grand Imām to Children."
Date of source: Sunday, December 7, 2025
The Education and Students Sector at ʿAyn Shams University is organizing the 15th Daʿwa Week under the title "Youths between the Purposes of Religion and Attempts at Westernization," with the participation of a select group of professors and Al-Azhar scholars specializing in this field on December...
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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.