Egypt's Constitutional Court Freezes Ruling Requiring Coptic Church To Remarry Divorced Men

ANSAmed and AFP reported yesterday that Egypt's Constitutional Court has imposed a temporary freeze on a controversial ruling issued earlier this year by the country's High Administrative Court. That ruling, handed down in May (see prior posting), required the Coptic Christian Church to allow remarriages of divorced men. Coptic Church head Pope Shenouda III however announced that he would excommunicate any Coptic priest who remarries divorced men in violation of Church law.