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Date of source: Thursday, August 31, 2017
The Tunisian president's call for the [permissibility] of marriages between a Muslim woman to a non-Muslim man and equality in inheritance between men and women sparked a widespread heated controversy in Egypt more than any other Arab and Islamic country.
Date of source: Sunday, June 30, 2002
The Islamic Shari’a is the main source of legislation in Egypt. It states that Islamic laws should not be applied to the personal status cases of non-Muslims. The laws of their religions are to be applied to them. However, personal status law No. 462/1955 contains nine grounds for divorce in...
Date of source: Thursday, August 19, 2004
Dr. Nabil Luqa Bebawi strongly objects to the new eight reasons allowing divorce [for Coptic Christians] in the regulation of al-Maglis al-Mileli [Community Council], outside of adultery. Dr. Bebawi says that these reasons are unrelated to the Bible. As an alternative to this regulation, Dr....
Date of source:
The Cairo Court of Appeal said
that Israel is the first beneficiary of the law of khula? which can destroy the Egyptian society and its Islamic and
Arabic traditions. The deputy of the patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church in Egypt said that khula? is a new civil
legislation not known in...
Date of source:
[Khul‘‘ is wife?s request for divorce in return for the dowry and gifts she had received from
him].
Pope Shenouda expressed his satisfaction at the fact that the court rejected the khula? request of a
Coptic wife. He said that the decision was based on the teachings of Christianity and reflected...
Date of source: Friday, March 22, 2002
The Cairo Personal Status Court refused to hear the first case of khula? filed by a
Christian wife. The court based its judgment on the on the commandment of the Bible that the wife should not be
separated from her husband except for marital unfaithfulness. Lawyers of other Coptic wives asking...
Date of source:
[Khul‘‘ is wife?s request for
divorce in return for the dowry and gifts she had received from him].
Date of source: Monday, January 22, 2007
After Max Michel and the laymen’s conference, the Coptic Orthodox Church is facing troubles with a new dissident called Ra’ūbīl Istifanus, who established Saint Paul’s church for his new congregation the Sons of the Christ.
Date of source: Monday, January 15, 2007
In a complaint made to al-Sāhil chief prosecutor, a Christian woman accused an Evangelical pastor of swindling and marrying her off to a married inspector at the National Authority for Insurance and Pensions through a pseudo-contract of marriage and unknown church’s rituals.
Date of source: Saturday, February 23, 2002
Adel
Youssef, a lawyer, said that he expected that the court would agree to divorce actress Hala Sidqi from her husband
because he follows a different denomination from hers, which means that their case can be examined according to the
personal status law of the Muslims.
Date of source: Saturday, February 23, 2002
Abu Maqar monastery issued
a book titled ?The Divine Wisdom Behind the Structure of the Church.? The book tackles the role the church can play
in the political sphere. According to the book, clergymen are not allowed to play a political role. Laymen can play
a more effective role than clergymen...
Date of source: Monday, November 27, 2006
Divorce issues pose serious problems in many Copts’ private life and are causing a severe conflict between the state and the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Date of source: Sunday, November 5, 2006
Father Nasīf writes in response to Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb, the former muftī of Egypt, who accused Christianity of being a religion that calls for violence and where reason is absent.
Date of source: Sunday, October 29, 2006
The secretary of the late Archbishop Gregorius says there were no differences
in faith-related issues between the late clergyman and Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, but there were different
views between the two over issues that were not considered crucial.
Date of source: Friday, October 20, 2006
The Commissioner’s Authority of the State Council delivered its report
regarding the appeal of Pope Shenouda against the decree of the administrative court that obliged him to give
permission for remarriage to divorcees. The ruling of the lower court was declared to be illegal and...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 27, 2006
The author notes that the recent conference on orthodox doctrine has sparked
a “conference
war” between the mother Orthodox Church, laymen and Max Michel.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Pilgrimage and Coptic divorce were
amongst
the top issues discussed by Pope Shenouda in his last Wednesday meeting.
Date of source: Monday, September 25, 2006
A man married an ugly rich woman to overcome his poverty and decided later to get rid of her by converting to Islam.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 25, 1997
Discussion about the
issue of divorce in the Coptic church, the ten
conditions under which divorce was allowed in the 1938 law, and Pope
Shenouda’s rejection of these
conditions.
Date of source: Monday, September 18, 2006
Michael ‘Ādil looks back on the main events of
the year for the Coptic Orthodox Church.
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