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Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court Overrules Coptic Church On Remarriage Rights

By Howard M. Friedman

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Reuters and Al-Masry Al-Youm both report on a decision handed down by Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court on Saturday which undermines the Coptic Church's control over marriages of Christians. In an appeal by Coptic leader Pope Shenouda from a lower court decision, the Supreme Administrative Court ordered the Coptic Church to permit men in two separate cases to remarry after their divorces even though the remarriage was not permitted under Coptic Christian religious law. Coptic doctrine allows men to remarry only in cases of adultery or a marriage that was based on deceit. The Court said that family formation is a constitutional right and takes precedence over religious rights of the church.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on May 31, 2010 (boomark / email).

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