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In the last cabinet meeting, the regulations on building houses of worship were approved and the draft law is expected to be issued within days. The law states that whoever builds or demolishes a house of worship and breaks the law will be punished by imprisonment for no less than two years and...
Dr. Wahīd 'Abd al-Majīd is surprised why the unified law of building worship places has not been issued up until now, unless the sparkers of fitnah find a way to affect the community, adding that the law will satisfy Christian Egyptians and at the same time will not anger Muslim Egyptians. He added...
During a meeting on Wednesday, the Egyptian government approved a unified law on the construction of places of worship. Under the law, governors will be authorized to license the building, demolishtion, replacing, restoring, or modifying of places of worship, as well as associated expansions or...
The National Council for Human Rights gave its draft law on building worship houses and anti-discrimination law to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF). Read original text in Arabic  
Major General Manṣūr al-ʿIsāwī, Minister of Interior Affairs, said that the issuance of a unified law for building worship houses will occur soon. He added that the church affairs will be under the pretext of local councils, not the Ministry or any other Security Apparatuses. Read original text in...
Coptic thinker Kamāl Zākhir refuses that the State monitor church money, which will be imposed in the unified law for building worship houses, to be issued. The church has its own mechanism, as approved by the Milī council, to monitor its money.  
Is the the issuance of a unified law on building houses of worship going to be the end of misery and the end of fitnah? Qutb al-'Arabī, writer, answers 'no' because this law will be applied on all religions equally, churches and mosques. That means that, according to the United Nations, every...
Major General Mansūr 'Isawī, Minister of Interior Affairs, said that the unified law on building houses of worship will be issued in days to put an end to handing out licenses and building churches in Egypt. Local councils in Egypt will be responsible for issuing permits for churches and mosques....
The government announced it would prepare a law within a month to ease restrictions on building churches, while banning protests in front of places of worship, after attacks on Cairo churches. The government is also moving to reopen churches closed under President Mubarak. It would study the cases...
Veteran journalist Salāh 'Isá writes that every time sectarian incidents break out, a lot of talking emerges on a unified law regulating the construction of houses of worship, then after a while the law is being mothballed once again. Until the last incidents of Imbābah when Egypt was teetering on...

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