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Thursday, September 1, 2016

Egyptian parliament approves long-awaited law governs building and renovating churches Tuesday Aug 30,2016

Egypt`s Parliament approved on Tuesday Aug 30,2016 a long-awaited law that governs building and renovating churches, an issue that has led in the past to attacks on members the country`s Christian minority by Muslim militants.

Egyptian Christians make up about a tenth of the country`s 90 million population and are the Middle East`s largest Christian community. They have long complained of discrimination in the majority-Muslim country.

The new law empowers provincial governors to approve church building and renovation permits, previously the domain of security services.

Church officials see it as a step in the right direction but human rights advocates and some Christian Members of Parliament said it was prejudiced.

"This is a sectarian law that shows the state prefers the adherents of one religion over another," Ishak Ibrahim of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights told

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