Coptic Christians call for divorce law relaxation

Christians protesters demand the right of divorce and second marriages in July 2011 Al Ahram Online 23/4/2012 Coptic 38 – a group founded to demand liberalisation of divorce laws by Coptic Christian Church – calls for reimplementation of 1938 bylaws that permit divorce under 9 conditions. A Coptic Christian group called Coptic 38, established in 2011 to campaign for changes to the Church’s divorce laws, held a press conference at the Journalists’ Syndicate Monday to call for the re-implementation of 1938 bylaws that permitted Coptic Christians to obtain a divorce under nine conditions. The recently deceased Pope Shenouda III restricted divorce to cases of adultery, conversion to Islam or to another Christian denomination in 2008.