WATANI International
11 August 2011
The Egyptian Interior Ministry has issued a legal order to civil register offices throughout Egypt to implement the administrative court order of 3 July in favour of reconverts to Christianity. The court order upheld the right of Christians who had for some reason converted to Islam but later wished to revert to their original Christianity to have their new status legalised, with their religion being cited as “Christian” in their official ID documents.
So far, individuals who reverted to Christianity, whose numbers run in the thousands, were confronted with obstacles placed in the path of having their status officially acknowledged, as Interior Ministry offices refused to change their ID documents to cite their new status.