“Be completely humble, gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love,” reads Ephesians 4:2, a book in the Bible’s New Testament. In the Christian faith, marriage is a sacrament in which God blesses, sanctifies, and completes the love between the man and woman. When their union is made eternal by the grace of the Holy Spirit in the marriage, their love is believed to help them transcend any limitations and obstacles imposed by the world. And yet, the obstacles can prove to be many in the most populous country in the Middle East. In 2021, Major General Khairat Barakat, head of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), explained that Egypt recorded a case of divorce every two minutes and two marriages every minute. Divorce cases in Egypt have also evidently increased by 14.7 percent, nearly reaching 245,777 in 2021 compared to 222,036 certificates in 2020. For the Muslim community in Egypt, divorce is a simple process. However, for Egypt’s Christians, who make up 1o to 15 percent of the country’s population, divorce is a hefty and complicated process that involves both the state and the church….
