Date of source: Friday, March 5, 1999
No for the pagan adoption; yes for Islamic custody. A Coptic priest believes adoption to be a pagan creation inherited from Byzantine law. Islam replaces adoption with custody to protect family relationships and the holiness of matrimony. Adoption has infiltrated western societies which renounced...
Date of source: Monday, March 8, 1999
A summary of the perceived legislative errors of the 1938 Personal Status Law from the viewpoint of Egyptian Christians.
Date of source: Monday, February 22, 1999 to Sunday, February 28, 1999
The article is an attack on the Coptic Orthodox refusal to accept the baptism of the Coptic Catholic and Coptic Evangelical churches in Egypt. However, claims are made that Orthodox priests say are factually not true. Some Orthodox priests were consulted and their comments are found in the...
Date of source: Monday, February 1, 1999
After the passage of more than 20 years since the first attempt at issuing a unified Personal Status Law binding all Christian denominations, an agreement has finally been reached in the last couple of days. Rose al-Yūsif obtained the full text of the Personal Status Law for the Copts and describes...
Date of source: Monday, January 25, 1999
The court of personal affairs in Cairo passed an order that Pope Shenouda should give his permission for one of the Copts to remarry. Pope Shenouda refuses.
Date of source: Sunday, January 24, 1999
His Holiness Pope Shinūdā III the heads and representatives of Christian churches in Egypt to endorse the "Unified Personal Status Bill" before its submission by His Holiness to the Minister of Justice for consideration.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 11, 1998
The General Guide of the Ikhwan Al-Muslimun (Muslim Brotherhood) did not answer the questions of Dr. Sai’d Al-Nagar, head of the liberal ’New Call Society’, the [human rights]lawyer Maurice Sadek, and Hazem Al-Kilani, from a splinter group of the brotherhood and one of the founders of Al-Wasat (...
Date of source: Friday, October 9, 1998
Arguments are given against orfi marriage from an Islamic point of view.
Date of source: Monday, July 27, 1998
The women in non-Orthodox Coptic sects are demanding equality with the women of the Orthodox church who are judged according to Islamic Sharia in cases related to the custody of their children.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 23, 1998
An autobiography of the phenomenal preacher. The translator added the references to many other articles which appeared about sheikh Sha’arawi in the Egyptian press.