remarriage
Coptic Church challenges verdict obliging it to allow remarriage of Coptic citizen
Egypt
April 28, 2015
Coptic Church challenges verdict obliging it to allow remarriage of Coptic citizen
Leila Attia Isaac, a Coptic Church lawyer, filed an appeal on Tuesday to the Supreme Administrative Court to challenge the…
120 Coptic Christians leave Orthodox Church over divorce, remarriage laws
Egypt
September 18, 2011
120 Coptic Christians leave Orthodox Church over divorce, remarriage laws
The Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt has received more than 120 individual notices from Coptic Christians informing the Church that…
Court verdict permitting remarriage ‘irrelevant,’ says church lawyer
Egypt
December 1, 2010
Court verdict permitting remarriage ‘irrelevant,’ says church lawyer
Coptic Church lawyer Ramses al-Naggar said a Wednesday court verdict allowing divorced Copts to remarry would be "irrelevant" since it…
Egyptian court upholds verdict allowing divorced Copts to remarry
Egypt
November 30, 2010
Egyptian court upholds verdict allowing divorced Copts to remarry
Egypt's Court of Administrative Justice on Tuesday upheld an earlier judicial ruling allowing Coptic Christian divorcees to remarry.
Churches hail court’s reversal on remarriage
Egypt
July 8, 2010
Churches hail court’s reversal on remarriage
Egypt's Coptic, Catholic and Anglican Churches all welcomed a decision by the Supreme Constitutional Court to overturn a previous ruling…
Court ruling on Coptic remarriage overturned
Egypt
July 7, 2010
Court ruling on Coptic remarriage overturned
The Supreme Constitutional Court on Wednesday overturned an earlier verdict issued in May by the Supreme Administrative Court that obliged…
Sunday’s papers: the judges, the lawyers and the students
Egypt
June 13, 2010
Sunday’s papers: the judges, the lawyers and the students
Speaker of Parlaiment Fathi Sorour’s intervention to resolve the recent tension between judges and lawyers is the leading headline across…
Coptic remarriage: How to solve the impasse
Opinion
June 8, 2010
Coptic remarriage: How to solve the impasse
The Supreme Administrative Court's recent decision requiring the Coptic Orthodox Church to allow second marriages for Coptic divorcees has elicited…
Copts to demonstrate in support of Church’s stance on remarriage
Egypt
June 6, 2010
Copts to demonstrate in support of Church’s stance on remarriage
In an interview on Coptic satellite television channel CTV, Coptic Pope Shenouda III said that Coptic divorcees wishing to remarry…
Administrative court permits divorced to remarry
Egypt
May 30, 2010
Administrative court permits divorced to remarry
The Supreme Administrative Court has ordered Pope Shenouda III to allow two Copts, in two different lawsuits, to remarry after…