Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 22, 2025
The Iraqi parliament announced on Tuesday, the 21st, the approval of amendments to personal status law in the country following several re-drafts due to criticism that the new amendments could allow child marriages.
Date of source: السبت, كانون الثاني (يناير) 25, 2025
Former Grand Muftī of Egypt Dr. Shawqī ʿAllām has stated that extremist groups distort religious texts and Islamic jurisprudence to serve their own agendas, further adding that these groups adopt their own interpretations, whether based in the Qur’ān or the ḥadīth, with the aim of manipulating them...
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون الثاني (يناير) 27, 2025
Al-Azhar’s pavilion will host a series of anticipated seminars at the 56th annual session of the Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF), fostering dialogue and promoting Islamic scholarship. One such seminar, “Towards an Islamic-Islamic Dialogue,” will take place of Tuesday, January 28, as part of...
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 15, 2025
Patriarch Mār Bishāra Buṭrus Al-Rāʿī led a delegation of Maronite bishops to visit Lebanese President General Joseph Khalīl ʿAoūn at Baabda (Baʿbdā) Palace to offer congratulations for the country’s new president
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 24, 2024
On the instructions of the King, a communication meeting was held in Rabat on Tuesday, 24 December 2024, to present the proposals for revising the Family Code, or Moudawana. These proposals will be put to a vote in Parliament.
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 4, 2021
Grand Imām of Al-Azhar Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb and Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church reaffirmed their commitments to “reinforce and consolidate the values of dialogue.”
Date of source: السبت, كانون الثاني (يناير) 11, 2025
Maronite Patriarch of Lebanon Cardinal Mār Bishāra Buṭrus al-Rāʿī has said that the content of the speech delivered by Lebanese President General Joseph ʿAoūn when he was sworn into the Lebanese parliament on Thursday (January 9) is a “roadmap for the salvation of Lebanon.”
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 7, 2025
Pope Tawāḍrūs of the Coptic Orthodox Church has stressed the unity of Egyptians as “one family,” asserting that “Egyptians can never be divided.”
Date of source: الأحد, كانون الثاني (يناير) 5, 2025
The Catholic Church in Jordan is preparing for an important occasion coming up – the official consecration of the Church of the Baptism of the Lord (Kanīsa maʿamūdiyya al-sayyīd al-masīḥ) in Wādī al-Kharrār, the desert area near the Jordan river where according to the Gospel, Christ was baptised by...
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 23, 2024
Grand Muftī of Egypt, Dr. Naẓīr ʿAyyād has stated that Dār al-Iftā’ approves of many of the issues raised within the draft law on personal status affairs.