{"id":39488,"date":"2016-09-29T11:19:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T09:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/site\/?p=39488"},"modified":"2016-09-29T11:20:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T09:20:41","slug":"%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b1%d8%a6%d9%8a%d8%b3-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%b3%d9%8a-%d9%8a%d8%b5%d8%af%d8%b1-%d9%82%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%88%d9%86-%d8%aa%d9%86%d8%b8%d9%8a%d9%85-%d8%a8%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%a1-%d9%88%d8%aa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b1%d8%a6%d9%8a%d8%b3-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%b3%d9%8a-%d9%8a%d8%b5%d8%af%d8%b1-%d9%82%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%88%d9%86-%d8%aa%d9%86%d8%b8%d9%8a%d9%85-%d8%a8%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%a1-%d9%88%d8%aa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sisi ratifies Egypt&#8217;s new church building law after it was approved by the House of Representatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">Egypt&#8217;s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi ratified on Wednesday the country\u2019s new law regulating the building of churches after it was approved by the House of Representatives in August.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #333333; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">The long-awaited law, the 13 articles of which have been published in Egypt&#8217;s official gazette, regulates the construction and restoration of churches in the country.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #333333; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">Egyptian Christians, have long struggled to obtain official permits required to build churches, with the process at times taking years.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">The construction of churches was regulated by &#8220;hamayouni decree&#8221; issued by the Ottoman Empire in 1856 for non-Muslims, as\u00a0building and restoration of churches\u00a0were\u00a0licensed with the consent of the Ottoman Sultan to prevent the domination and control of governors, and this authority moved to the head of the Egyptian state after independence.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">Work continued with this Decree till\u00a01934 where the &#8220;ten conditions&#8221;\u00a0decree, was issued as Copts deemed these granting construction and renovation of churches permits conditions unfair \u00a0.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt&#8217;s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi ratified on Wednesday the country\u2019s new law regulating the building of churches after it was approved by the House of Representatives in August. The long-awaited law, the 13 articles of which have been published in Egypt&#8217;s official gazette, regulates the construction and restoration of churches in the country. Egyptian Christians, have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":32154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,74],"tags":[6550,6549,4942,163,6548,3547,342,1532],"class_list":["post-39488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-74","tag-egypts-new-church-building-law","tag-ratifies","tag-sisi","tag-163","tag-6548","tag-3547","tag-342","tag-1532"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39488"}],"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=39488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39490,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39488\/revisions\/39490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}