Date of source: السبت, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 11, 2023
Sheikh of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad Al-Ṭayyib, announced a number of important messages to the governments, the people, the resistance, the people of Gaza, the West, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations. This came after the start of the Israeli aggression against Gaza on October 7, after the...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 15, 2023
President of al-Azhar University, Dr. Salāma Dawūd, followed up on the preparation of a humanitarian aid convoy to be sent to Gaza. This was organized by the university’s Community Service Committee, under the leadership of the vice-president of post graduate studies, Maḥmūd Ṣidīq. The convoy...
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 3, 2023
The dean of the Uṣul al-Dīn (Theology) College in al-Minūfīya province, Dr. Khālid ʿAbd al-ʿĀl, said Imām al-Sayīd al-Badawī has enriched Islamic Sufism, adding that the imām had dreamt of coming to Egypt three times.
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 2, 2023
Some women resort to khulʿ as a way to terminate their marriage in the case of failing to be able to leave their husband with the standard way of divorce. However, some women are concerned about certain issues regarding the matrimonial home, such as the fate of their property, as well as child...
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 9, 2023
Al-Azhar hailed the “great people of Palestine and the Arab and Muslim nation, who won the honor of the shahāda (martyrdom) as steadfast defenders of their homeland and their cause — the Palestinian issue — to which they, we, and each and every human of integrity all over the world are devoted.”
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 2, 2023
Egypt has experienced security and stability during the past ten years, and the Copts of Egypt have experienced this first-hand as they have lived through a period of consolidation of rules of citizenship with the power of the law.
Date of source: الاثنين, أيلول (سبتمبر) 4, 2023
On Monday (September 4), Dr. Sāmī Fawzī, Archbishop of the Province of Alexandria for the Episcopal/Anglican Church in Egypt, inaugurated the languages department at the Minūfīya Episcopal School.
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 6, 2023
Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church urged young people to devote their energy to God and warned of extravagance and of affairs outside wedlock. He said, “Life is like a bank, where you get what you deposit.”
Date of source: الأربعاء, آذار (مارس) 20, 2019
Four centuries have passed amidst differences among doctrines and scholars of fiqh (jurisprudence) regarding whether smoking was ḥalāl (religiously permissible) or ḥarām (religiously impermissible), but science tipped the scale in favor of impermissibility when it indicated its effects on human...
Date of source: الخميس, آب (اغسطس) 10, 2023
On Thursday, the Virgin Mary Church, at its monastery in Drunka in the Asyūṭ governorate, announced an initiative to sell food and drinks inside the church at affordable prices as part of the annual celebrations of the Virgin Mary Fasting, falling on August 7-22.