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49. Houses of worship law to strip governors of licensing power

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Year: 
2011
Week: 
42
Article number: 
49
Article pages: 
5
Date of source: 
October 17, 2011
Author: 
Nafīsah 'Abd al-Fatāh
Reviewer: 
‘Amr al-Misrī
Article summary: 

The proposed draft law to regulate the construction of houses of worship would strip governors of the power to license building, al-Usbū' learnt from reliable sources.

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The weekly newspaper also learnt that one of the bones of contention in this draft is the stipulation that the number of houses of worship for each of the religions recognized in Egypt with the number of population followers of a certain religion in each area.

The church is also objecting the condition of space as the draft provided that the space of any house of worship shall not be less than 300 meters in cities and 150 meters in villages and that the space between each two similar houses of worship shall not be less than 500 meters in cities and 300 meters in villages.

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