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38. Coptic lawyers protest: the church showed courtesy to Halah S&#803idqi and granted her permission to marry in violation of the Bible, and hundreds of divorced Christian women shout, “why Halah in particular?”
Date of source: Monday, August 6, 2007
Actress Hālah Ṣidqī’s second marriage caused a storm of protest within Coptic circles, especially because there are more than 20,000 cases of divorced Christians who are unable to remarry because of the Coptic Orthodox Church’s refusal to grant them marriage permissions.
15. Sectarian crisis in al-Marj
Date of source: Saturday, April 21, 2007
Sectarian tension in al-Marj, a Cairo suburb, results in a crime. Allegations of the victim’s sister assert the mistake in the forensic medical report that declared nervous shock as a cause of death. The family of the allegedly “murdered” wants revenge in the absence of an active police role.
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