The 1938 Copts Coalition organized a march of protest with dozens taking part from the justice ministry headquarters to the People’s Assembly (parliament) to demand the re-activation of the 1938 statute that includes 10 reasons for obtaining divorce.

The protesters called for repealing the “unilateral amendment” by the Coptic Orthodox Church in 2008 that confined conditions for divorce to only change of religion and adultery. [‘Imād Khalīl, Sa’īd Nāfi’ and Teresa Kamāl, al-Misrī al-Yawm, April 24, p. 14] Read original text in Arabic