Chancellor Naguib Gabriel, head of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization, said that the ruling, which was issued a few days from Heliopolis family Court, to divorce a couple Based on submitting an undocumented canon marriage contract to the court and the court considered the marriage a customary marriage represents a dangerous precedent that is unprecedented in the history of the Egyptian judiciary.
He added: “It is a blatant attack on the Christian religious constants because the marriage contract in Christianity falls within the core of religious work that court may not be exposed to.”
Gabriel believes that the judgment is incompatible with the Egyptian constitution as the third article stats, Christian and Jewish religious affairs: The principles of the laws of Egyptian Christians and Jews are the main source of laws regulating their personal status, religious affairs, and selection of spiritual leaders.
He continued: “The verdict will open the door to other to exploit this rule and deliberate to not register canon marriage to file a lawsuit on the basis of this provision, and he appealed to notaries priests not to grant canon marriage contracts to those concerned before documenting the contracts.”
