{"id":38569,"date":"2016-08-17T14:30:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T12:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/site\/?p=38569"},"modified":"2016-08-17T14:30:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T12:30:34","slug":"%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%85-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%83%d9%88%d9%85%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%82%d8%b4-%d9%82%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%88%d9%86-%d8%a8%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%a1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%83%d9%86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%85-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%83%d9%88%d9%85%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%82%d8%b4-%d9%82%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%88%d9%86-%d8%a8%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%a1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%83%d9%86\/","title":{"rendered":"Today .. Government discusses &#8220;building churches&#8221; law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">Council of Ministers\u00a0headed by Engineer Sherif Ismail , the Prime Minister, discusses \u00a0today, at\u00a0its weekly meeting, &#8220;construction and renovation of churches&#8221; bill, in preface\u00a0of approving it and send it to the State Council to\u00a0review it before submitting it to the Parliament for approval during the current legislative term in accordance with the provisions of Article 235 of the Constitution.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">This comes in the wake of return of\u00a0consultations between the government and churches about the law, after a broad sector\u00a0of\u00a0Copts rejected the wording of the bill that was\u00a0approved by the churches representatives with the state two weeks ago.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">Anba\u00a0Pola, Bishop of Tanta and related areas and executive of Public Relations Committee of the holy synod\u00a0of the Coptic Orthodox Church, and representative of the church in the Committee that is putting the law with the government , held\u00a0a meeting, the day before yesterday, with judge\u00a0Magdy Agaty, Minister of State for Legal Affairs and the House of Representatives, to discuss the wording of some articles of the law.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">This proposed law from the government to build churches includes 8\u00a0articles that\u00a0states:\u00a0allow the construction, renovation and demolition of churches, and methods of appeal against the rejection of licensing churches\u00a0at to the administrative court, determines the duration of 4 months for the governors\u00a0to issue\u00a0the\u00a0licenses, rationing the\u00a0churches and buildings related to the church that was built prior to the issuance of this law after 6 months of the issuance of the law.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Council of Ministers\u00a0headed by Engineer Sherif Ismail , the Prime Minister, discusses \u00a0today, at\u00a0its weekly meeting, &#8220;construction and renovation of churches&#8221; bill, in preface\u00a0of approving it and send it to the State Council to\u00a0review it before submitting it to the Parliament for approval during the current legislative term in accordance with the provisions of Article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":38570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,74],"tags":[6051,5812,6050,6049,5370,6048,1154,6046,6047,5810],"class_list":["post-38569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-74","tag-building-churches","tag-building-churches-law","tag-discusses","tag-government","tag-law","tag-today","tag-1154","tag-6046","tag-6047","tag-5810"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38571,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38569\/revisions\/38571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}