The current draft of churches building law would lead to major problems with the Salafists, said the Coptic Church’s lawyer Ehab Ramzy.
He added, in a press statement, that the new draft law described the church as a building surrounded with wall, while it does not have any binding articles to put crosses or bells over the building.
He signaled that members of the Salafist parties expressed their protest many times before against the installment of crosses over the churches in a number of Upper Egypt’s provinces.
The current controversial draft of churches building law has not been adopted by Egypt’s cabinet, said Ramzy, so the governors would keep the power whether to approve the building of any church or not.
He stressed, “The major dilemma in this regard is the absence of criteria on the basis of which the governors would approve the building of churches.”
The Coptic lawyer rebuked the new law for linking the decision to build a church or not to the number of Coptic residents in the targeted area in the light of the absence of any official documents over the number of Copts in Egypt.
