{
  "id": 14364313,
  "title": "Egypt’s Baha’i minority is running out of space to bury their dead",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/egypts-bahai-minority-is-running-out-of-space-to-bury-their-dead",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-14T01:23:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MyJoyOnline Ghana",
    "slug": "myjoyonline-ghana",
    "url": "https://www.myjoyonline.com/egypts-bahai-minority-is-running-out-of-space-to-bury-their-dead/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In a Cairo cemetery, the final burial ground for Egypt's Baha'i minority is rapidly exhausting space. This community, a religious minority long marginalized, faces bureaucratic hurdles in daily life, including challenges in school enrollment, pensions, and marriage registration. Joumana Labib, a young architect, fears that if the cemetery fills, there will be no other places for her family to be buried. With an estimated 1,000 Baha'is in Egypt, a country of 110 million, Baha'is practice a faith that allows moving a body no more than an hour after death, complicating burial arrangements. Over time, Burial grounds in Alexandria and Port Said have been filled or reassigned, forcing many families to transport bodies to Cairo. Community members report that requests for new burial grounds in these cities have been rejected without clear explanations. Egypt's government maintains it does not impose restrictions on religious freedom, but Baha'is still face practical difficulties in establishing their marriages and ensuring equal treatment in official records.",
  "summary": "This is the last remaining burial place of Egypt's Baha'i community, a religious minority long on the margins of official life, and it is quickly running out of room.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}