From Reuters…

An Egyptian court has ruled that the state has no obligation to recognise the right of Christians who convert to Islam to change their minds and revert to Christianity, a human rights group said on Sunday.
The Court of Administrative Justice ruled that recognising such changes of religion would violate a ban on apostasy which most Muslim jurists say is part of Islamic law, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights said in a statement.
The ruling reverses the position the same court had held up to September 2006, when the former president of the court retired. In 22 previous rulings the court had said that refusing to recognise a citizen’s reversion to Christianity was unjustified interference by the state and a form of coercion.

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[Above: A mosque neighboring a church on Dahab Island, Nile. Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy.]