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Year: 
2010
Week: 
27
Article number: 
1
Article pages: 
1
Date of source: 
July 8, 2010
Author: 
‘Imād al-Sayīd and ‘Amr Bayūmī
Reviewer: 
Ahmad al-Ghaz&#363l&#299
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 Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court on Wednesday passed a ruling to suspend an earlier decision handed down by the High Administrative Court obliging Pope Shenouda III of the Coptic Orthodox Church to remarry divorcee Majdī William Yūsuf.

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 Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court on Wednesday passed a ruling to suspend an earlier decision handed down by the High Administrative Court obliging Pope Shenouda III of the Coptic Orthodox Church to remarry divorcee Majdī William Yūsuf.

 
The pope went to the Supreme Constitutional Court demanding a decision be passed on a dispute regarding two conflicting final sentences.
 
The High Administrative Court passed a ruling on February 20, 2007 to obliging Pope Shenouda to grant the plaintiff a license from the Coptic Orthodox Church for remarriage.
 
Upheld by the court on May 29, the ruling contradicts another that was issued by al-Wāylī Court of Misdemeanor on case 7418 of the year 2008 in favor of Pope Shenouda.
 
During his weekly Wednesday sermon in the Saint Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-‘Abbāssīya, Pope Shenouda voiced the "Coptic Church's satisfaction and relief and asserts appreciation for the Egyptian judiciary".
 
The pope reiterated his rejection of the documentation of civil marriage.
 
"Marriage at the Egyptian Coptic Church is a purely religious matter. The Lord says in the Bible that 'What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder," he said.
 
He noted that the Holy Book did not "interfere in the slightest details of our lives but it has laid general principles and left worldly affairs to our own discretion".
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