Coptic demonstrators demand from the church to be implemented with the Islamic law (Sharī'ah) in the law of personal state. The new law deprives thousands of Copts of a civilian divorce and pushes them to “convert to Islam” if they really want to get divorced. Meanwhile the leaders of the three Egyptian churches demand passing a law of personal state for non-Muslims, in order to resolve the crisis of divorce in the church and end the conflict between the church and the judiciary, which exist for many years.

The leaders of the church argue that the unification of the provisions of “judicial and church” is the only way to resolve this crisis. However, they overlook that the abolition of the Regulation from 1938, which allows ten reasons to invalidate the marriage, will provide those who really want to divorce only one opportunity, namely convert to Islam (Mustafá Sha'bān and Sarah Hāmid, al-Misrīyūn, Apr. 22, p. 4). Read original text in Arabic.