Date of source: الخميس, نيسان (أبريل) 19, 2012
Meanwhile, the independent syndicate of imāms issued a statement expressing support for the initiative announced by the Azhar under the auspices of Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb to prepare guiding proposals on criteria for the re-formation of a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution for...
Date of source: الخميس, نيسان (أبريل) 19, 2012
Supporters believe the visit is consolidating the concept of the Arabism of al-Quds (Jerusalem) while opponents think it lends legitimacy to the “Zionist entity” that allows entry into the holy city only after it puts its seal on passports and entry visas. The second team stressed support for the...
Date of source: الأحد, نيسان (أبريل) 15, 2012
The Saint Mark Church of Orthodox Copts in France held an Easter Mass on Saturday evening, attended by a host of diplomats and officials led by Egypt’s ambassador in Paris Nāsir Kāmil and Brig. Muhammad Ra’fat al-Dash, Egypt’s military attaché in the French capital.
Dash conveyed congratulations by...
Date of source: الأحد, نيسان (أبريل) 15, 2012
“We would like, in the name of our Holy Synod, to thank our brothers in all their different positions of responsibility for sharing us in our grief over the departure of Pope Shenouda III, with special thanks to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad...
Date of source: الخميس, نيسان (أبريل) 12, 2012
The lawyers’ team, composed of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), the El Nadim Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and lawyers of the Maspero martyrs’ families, in a press conference at the EIPR headquarters on Wednesday (April 11), said the military judiciary has...
Date of source: الخميس, نيسان (أبريل) 12, 2012
A source in the Coptic Orthodox Church in Alexandria revealed a split among members of the Millī Council – seven members – over persons most likely to be the next patriarch of Copts in succession of Pope Shenouda III.
Some Copts in the northern Egyptian Mediterranean city now call the Millī Council...
Date of source: الخميس, نيسان (أبريل) 12, 2012
The lawyers’ team, composed of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), the El Nadim Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and lawyers of the Maspero martyrs’ families, in a press conference at the EIPR headquarters on Wednesday (April 11), said the military judiciary has...
Date of source: الخميس, نيسان (أبريل) 12, 2012
A source in the Coptic Orthodox Church in Alexandria revealed a split among members of the Millī Council – seven members – over persons most likely to be the next patriarch of Copts in succession of Pope Shenouda III.
Some Copts in the northern Egyptian Mediterranean city now call the Millī Council...
Date of source: الخميس, نيسان (أبريل) 12, 2012
Meanwhile, Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb said the top Sunnī establishment is soon releasing a document indicating the rights of women as adopted by the Islamic sharī’ah (law), highlighting women’s interest in education.
“Islam has granted women rights that have not been included in...
Date of source: الخميس, نيسان (أبريل) 12, 2012
The lawyers’ team, composed of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), the El Nadim Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and lawyers of the Maspero martyrs’ families, in a press conference at the EIPR headquarters on Wednesday (April 11), said the military judiciary has...