Prohibition of changing the denomination for the purpose of divorce in Christianity to prevent the defrauding of the laws .. Details – ryan

Changing the denomination in divorce cases in the wiped out was common, as the competent authorities suspended the procedures for “changing the denomination” in cases of divorce, after it was found that some of this procedure exploited this as a way to circumvent the laws of personal status and ecclesiastical rules regulating marriage and divorce, without a real change in belief or faith.

The decision comes in light of the necessity of the necessity of the necessity of the Christian citizens to resort to their religious laws in personal status matters, which makes changing the religion for the purpose of divorce a unconstitutional fraud.

In this context, the Coptic Orthodox Church clarified the new rules regulating Christian marriage, on top of which is the requirement that marriage within the church be between two challenging people, and the Church stressed that changing one of the spouses for his sect after completing the marriage does not affect the divorce procedures, as the legal reference remains based on the law of the original sect in which the marriage was carried out.

As for other Christian sects, St. Paula, the official of the personal status file in the Orthodox Church, pointed out that the new draft law regulates marriage and divorce issues based on what the Christian sects agree in Egypt, where unified legal articles are implemented in the agreed issues, while each sect applies its own list in issues that differ on it.

This legal organization aims to put an end to attempts to manipulate religious laws, and to preserve the sanctity of Christian marriage, a break of the church, and not just a civil contract that can be circumvented.