Egypt Drafting New Mariage Law After Court Upsets Coptic Church Rules

Egypt's Justice Ministry yesterday announced that a 30-person committee has been appointed to draft a new marriage and divorce law to cover the country's minority non-Muslim religious groups. AP reports that the move responds to anger from Egypt's Coptic Christian Church over a Supreme Administrative Court decision last month holding that divorced Copts have a right to remarry in the Church even when that violates Church law. (See prior posting.) Justice Minister Mahmoud Marei said the new law would "ensure everyone's right to worship God according to their own set of rules."