Egypt top court overturns Coptic remarriage ruling
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Egypt’s highest judiciary body on Wednesday overturned a ruling ordering the Coptic church to allow its faithful to remarry, the official MENA news agency said, in a move welcomed by the church.
The Supreme Constitutional Court overturned a May decision by the High Administrative Court that obliged the head of the church, Pope Shenuda III, to issue a second marriage permit to divorced Copts requesting one.
That ruling sparked demonstrations in Cairo, with angry protesters, saying it went against the Bible, charging state interference in religious affairs.
Copts forbid divorce except in proven cases of adultery, or if a spouse converts to another religion or branch of Christianity.
Civil marriage alone is not recognized in Egypt.
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