Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 26, 2022
According to Sonia Rizq writing in al-Diyyār, the fears and concerns of the Maronite Patriarch, H.G. Cardinal Mar Bishāra al-Rāʿī are manifested in his Sunday sermons and in all his positions, due to his fear for the fate of Lebanon in general, and for Christians in particular, who tend to emigrate...
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 21, 2022
Dār al-Kalima Press, which is affiliated with Dār al-Kalima University in Bethlehem, launched its latest publication, Rooted in Palestine: Palestinian Christians and the Struggle for National Liberation 1917-2004 by Xavier Abu Eid [Xavier Abū ʿĪd]. The launch ceremony took place in the hall of St....
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 18, 2022
At a conference organized by the Arab League in cooperation with the Global Council for Tolerance and Peace, Dr. Naẓīr ʿAyād, the Secretary General of the Islamic Research Academy, stated that Islam views religious pluralism as an inevitable necessity and a universal sunna. This comes from Islam’s...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آب (اغسطس) 10, 2022
The Public Prosecution Office stated that violence against women is not pervasive in the way that some people seek to export it, taking advantage of these facts and the community’s interest in following up on its details as if they express the state of society as a whole. These individual criminal...
Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 24, 2022
Archbishop ʿAṭāllāh Ḥannā of the Greek Orthodox Church of Sebastia clarified today that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. “We reject anti-Semitism, and we reject all kinds of racism in all its forms, especially when it is done in the name of religion,” he said.
Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 24, 2022
The call by shaykh of al-Azhar, Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib, to revive "the right of toil and pursuit" fatwa to preserve the rights of working women has sparked wide reactions, from women's rights organizations in Egypt. These organizations have called for the housewife, who has worked to develop her husband's...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, شباط (فبراير) 8, 2022
Last year, the Egyptian Cabinet increased the punishment for female genital mutilation (FGM) to a maximum 20-year prison sentence, but this has not limited the spread of the practice.
Date of source: السبت, كانون الثاني (يناير) 8, 2022
Egyptian authorities released Coptic activist Rāmī Kāmil on Saturday, following the decision of the public prosecution’s office, after enduring more than two years in pretrial detention.
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 8, 2021
Yesterday, al-Mansūra Misdemeanor Court ordered the release of researcher and human rights activist Patrick George Zakī. The court postponed Zakī’s trial until February 1, because the defense’s arguments still need to be heard.
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 28, 2021
Dr Sāmī Fawzī, Archbishop of the Episcopal/Anglican Church of Alexandria, participated in joint theological dialogue sessions between the Anglican Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches around the world through a Zoom meeting.