Representatives of Egypt’s three main Christian churches have jointly decided to end their participation in writing a new Egyptian constitution because it will not reflect the pluralistic identity of the Muslim nation.
A primary concern is an article enshrining the “principles” of shari’ah law as the primary source of legislation. “The only ones who can understand this article are graduates of al-Azhar [the Cairo-based center of Islamic scholarship],” said the president of the Protestant Churches of Egypt, Safwat el-Baiadi.
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