This can be good news for Egyptian Christians. According to BBC published article, an Egyptian court ruled that 12 Christians who converted to Islam and then reverted to Christianity can have their faith officially recognized. Even though changes of some articles in the Egyptian Constitution have been made to apply the principle of equality between all Egyptians regardless of their religion (al mowatana), still more efforts need to be done in this respect not to mention a dramatic reform of rigid and intolerant mentalities. (Till present, an Egyptian ID states the religion of a person, but is not stated in one’s passport).
A new hope?
February 10th, 2008 by SM (Cairo, Egypt) · 2 Comments
Tags: Human Rights · Religion
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1 LM (Beirut, Lebanon) // Feb 11, 2008 at 9:50 am
In Lebanon, religion was written on ID cards but since the 90’s it disappeared. On the passports its impossible to know one’s religion. But in the governement’s registry you can see people’s religion, plus the registry number can make you guess what religion a personn belongs to. For example my registry number is 71, but there’s 71 christian, 71 muslim and 71 druze. So they make sure it’s classsified in a way that can make you guess what religion you belong to, like 71 A, 71 B etc..
2 SM (Cairo, Egypt) // Feb 14, 2008 at 9:28 am
Thanks LM for your comment, it is very informative. It is a pitty that such seggregation between humans still exist.
Regards,
Sherin.
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