...is governments regulating what Christians can do or say within the walls of their churches.
"The head of the Coptic Church in Egypt has rejected a court ruling that orders the church to allow divorced Copts to remarry in the church."
It's not just in the Middle East. A few years ago the government of Canada forbade a pastor from preaching about his church's view on sexual morality from his own pulpit.
Of course, to students of history, there is nothing new in any of this.