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Coptic lawyer Mamdūḥ Ramzī has accused the President of the Clerical Council Bishop Bula of taking bribes from divorced men and women in order to grant them a second marriage license.
‘Amr Bayyūmī reports on a press statement by Max Michel who launched a severe attack on the leadership of the Coptic Orthodox Church, as well as Bishop Marqus’ response to Michel’s claims.
Coptic Orthodox Church grants actress Hālah Ṣidqī marriage license while refusing to do the same to her ex-husband.
The Administrative Court ruling which grants a license to remarry is unconstitutional for it violates Article 46 of the Constitution which guarantees the freedom of belief and it contravenes the Coptic Orthodox doctrine.
The author criticizes the Coptic Orthodox Church for issuing a remarriage license to the Coptic actress Hālah Ṣidqī, due to her good relations with leaders of the church, while leaving the cases of 15,000 people who have long been applying for this license unresolved.
Defrocked Coptic Orthodox clergymen blame Pope Shenouda and influential bishops for receiving bribes and discriminating against the poor, yet church figures deny the allegations and stress the church’s decency.
Aḥmad al-Sa‘dāwī discussed the issue of divorce among Copts in Egypt, referring to the recent marriage of the Coptic actress Hālah Ṣidqī as a case in point of Coptic divorcees receiving permission from the church to re-marry.
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.
Max Michel fiercely attacks Pope Shenouda for granting actress Hālah Ṣidqī a license to remarry.
The article explains the problem that Coptic actress Hālah Ṣidqī is experiencing regarding her divorce from her husband Majdī William.

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