Pope Shenouda III, head of the Orthodox Church, is looking into the
demands of the protests calling for the approval of divorce and second
marriages that took place in front of the Clerical Council at Saint
Mark’s Cathedral in Abbassiya last week, according to the Middle East
News Agency, Egypt's offical news agency.
Pope Shenouda III has met with council chief Bishop Paul, who saw
Coptic groups demonstrating against him last week, demanding his
removal.
The Pope has asked Bishop Paul and other council officials to calm
demonstrators down, study their cases and explain why their requests had
been denied.
Several Copts protested in the early weeks of July, demanding a civil
marriage law that would allow them to divorce and remarry.
Several
protests followed, demanding that the church accept their requests
regardless of civil marriage law considerations.