CAIRO - 13 April 2020: Egypt's cabinet headed by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli announced on Saturday that 1,882 churches and Coptic service buildings have been legalized so far nationwide. The committee approved legalizing the status of 82 churches and buildings, Saad noted. The Cabinet’s decision to legalize churches comes according to 2016's article number 80 of the law regulating building churches. Several conditions were laid in the statement for the churches to be finally recognized by the government as legal religious buildings. On January 9, Egypt’s Ministry of Housing issued a decision to allocate lands to establish 37 churches in various new cities, Walid Abbas, assistant housing minister revealed.

Source: Egypt Today April 13, 2021 11:20 UTC