Egypt Faces Call to Reconsider Regulation of Marriage as Religious Rather than Civil Matter

In Egypt, media attention has spotlighted the country’s civil courts’ adherence to Coptic Christian Church rulings barring, as a matter of religious law, the divorce and remarriage of women who have fled abusive marriages. The Christian Science Monitor reports that increasing numbers of Egyptians are now calling for the creation of a now non-existent option, civil marriage, as alternative to the only current way to marry and to divorce, proceeding in accordance with the doctrine and authority of one’s religious faith.

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