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20. Exit from church's paradise over remarriage

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Year: 
2011
Week: 
40
Article number: 
20
Article pages: 
19
Date of source: 
October 3, 2011
Author: 
Fātimah al-Zahrā' Muhammad Mirvānā Māhir
Reviewer: 
‘Amr al-Misrī
Article summary: 

The crisis of remarriage in the Coptic Orthodox Church surfaced again but this time with more violent steps on the part of seekers of remarriage licenses after they announced that they "resigned" from the Orthodox denomination but would not join another.

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The church said that the "resignations" involved no more than 100 persons but rights groups affirmed that the actual number is up to 500.

In statements to al-Fajr newspaper, a church official who spoke only on condition of anonymity said, "The use of the word 'resignation' to describe the number of turncoats from Orthodox Christianity is so funny, because they are not employees for some organization".

He said that "each and every citizen has the right to switch from one denomination to another and also to seek civil marriage but in the same time it is our right not to recognize that marriage."

Ayman George, the coordinator of the Right to Live movement, which adopts the calls of the remarriage seekers to quit the church, said "the Orthodox Church's intransigence to settle the problems of marriage and divorce was behind several Christians' renunciation of their denominations or even rush to civil marriage, which requires no church approvals."

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