The Orthodox Church Info blog reports today (August 14, 2011) that the Right to Life Movement -- a Coptic group in Egypt -- said a large number of its members will collectively leave the Coptic Orthodox Church, while retaining their Christianity, in response to the Church's refusal to permit divorce and second marriages, except in cases of adultery.
Mariam al-Naggar -- a leading figure in the Right to Life Movement -- said they were resorting to this move because all doors "were shut in their faces."
Naggar said they reject the church law which limits reasons for divorce to adultery only because it has negative psychological consequences on children, while changing religion to get a divorce causes sectarian strife.
Pope Shenouda III -- head of the Coptic Orthodox Church -- recently amended the law to restrict divorce to cases of adultery or conversion to another religion or to a different Christian sect.
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