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State Council Court established a legal principle stating that the decrees of the Orthodox Church are considered administrative decrees that can be appealed. The establishment of this principle came after the Administrative Court announced its verdict invalidating a decree issued by Pope Shenouda...
The draft unified personal status law for the Copts has not yet been examined by the People´s Assembly. In year 2000, all the Christian denominations in Egypt signed this draft law that permits divorce only for marital unfaithfulness and does not allow giving any papers certifying a change...
Christian actress Hala Sidqi raised a khul´a case against her husband after changing her religious denomination. A Christian lawyer said that according to the law of the canonical courts, the marriage contract is considered to be invalid if the husband or the wife changes his/her denomination...
The former president of the court of appeal says that the claim that the Christian wife has the right to ask for khul´a if she changed her religious denomination has no true bases. Some Christian denominations allow divorce but no Christian denomination permits khul´a. Since this is the...
The author believes that the ban on divorce by the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church has a practical and emotional impact. She states that many couples change their denominations, while others resort to illegal means, including forgery, to obtain a legal separation.
William claims that Pope Shenouda is deliberately blocking his application to remarry, based on the notion that his ex-wife, Sidqī, changed her denomination and obtained a final court ruling for divorce on March 30, 2002.
An article was published in a newspaper about how the Christian woman, under Pope Shenouda III, has fallen prey to unjust human intervention that amended the rule of court of the year 1938. This amendment pertains to the Orthodox Coptic divorce, which deprives thousands of people of remarrying and...
Divorce has become a thorny issue for Copts. The courts allow it, while churches do not and refrain from granting remarriage permissions. Christian women resort to Khul c and some call for the civil marriage to escape the stranglehold of the religious one.
A Christian actress failed to obtain divorce from her husband after eight years of her case being examined by courts. So she changed her denomination from Coptic Orthodox to Syrian Orthodox to force her case to be examined according to the personal status law for Muslims. Furthermore, to hasten...
[Al-Khola’: wife’s request for divorce in return of renouncing all her rights in the marriage] A lawyer started a lawsuit to make Al-Khola’ law ineffective as he argues it is unconstitutional. The client of that lawyer is Coptic a lady who changed her religion to have the right to Al-Khola’ but the...

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