Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 19, 2011
The Liberal Lawyers Union and the 25th of January Association, two human rights organizations, demanded that Egyptian authorities enact laws that firmly establish the principles of equality, citizenship, and tolerance and help in the construction of houses of worship according to clear rules and...
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 4, 2011
Bishop Yu'annis, secretary of H.H. Pope Shenouda III, said that the Coptic pope sent his approval of the law on the construction of houses of worship and churches to the Egyptian Cabinet and the Supreme Military Council. Bishop Yu'annis added that the Pope had intended to visit the Grand Shaykh...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 29, 2011
As an American Christian in Egypt I find that I instinctively view events here through the following lens: Liberals are the good guys, Islamists are the bad guys, and the army is somewhere in between, perhaps neutral, perhaps not. Complicated times beg for simplistic narratives, and this one...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 8, 2011
The Azhar Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb phoned Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III yesterday to follow up on his health after the health crisis he faced last Wednesday.
During the call, the pope greeted Shaykh al-Tayyīb on the occassion of the Feast, in light particularly of the fact that he was...
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 11, 2011
A number of the Azhar Scholars, members of the “Egyptian Family House” and the three Egyptian churches welcomed the draft law on building houses of worship. They all asked for its issuance as soon as possible in order to face the sectarian fitnah that takes place every now and then. The Azhar...
Date of source: السبت, أيلول (سبتمبر) 17, 2011
During the last six months, it is noted that the Egyptian political life has interacted with many of the political documents. All of which revolve around the form of the next Constitution through what have been called by the media “supra-constitutional articles,” which must be taken into account in...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 26, 2011
During a visit paid by a delegation from Al-Azhar to extend condolences to Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III for the Maspero incidents, leaders of Al-Azhar and the Church agreed to face religious extremism and refused foreign interference.
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 10, 2011
Muftī of the Republic A’lī Jum’ah condemned attacking Islamic and Christian tombs in the city of Yāfā in Palestine by extremist Jews and writing provocative racial expressions on them.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 25, 2011
Responding to the huge stand of the salafīs yesterday before in Kafr el-Shaykh to support Shaykh Abu Ishāq al-Hūwīnī against Muftī Alī Gum’ah, a large number of scholars and students from al-Azhar and the global union of sūfī scholars headed by Prof. Hassan al-Shāfi’ī decided to organize a stand...
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 17, 2011
Members of the 'Family House' initiative headed by the Azhar's Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb and attended by representatives of the Egyptian church refused the draft law of the unified law for building houses of worship and agreed on the 2001 statute that regulates building mosques and asked for...