Date of source: Monday, September 4, 2006
The chairman of the church of St. Mīnā
Monastery [Reviewer: No name
mentioned], affiliated to the St. Mīnā Church in Alexandria, is
now facing accusations of
appropriating a 1,000,000 L.E. building and renting it to people without the permission
of its owner.
Date of source: Monday, October 27, 2003
The Mufti of Egypt, Ali Goma´a, issued a new and strange fatwa that allows women to pray wearing a ballet dancer´s costume. Still, there are conditions for praying with this costume. The room where one is praying should be totally dark. The fatwa triggered the anger of all the members of...
Date of source: Monday, May 26, 2003
A prominent lawyer has filed a lawsuit before the court asking that the Sheikh of the Azhar resigns because of his contradictory fatwas concerning important issues.
Date of source: Monday, February 6, 2006
Ibrāhim ‘Abd al-Shahīd Sidhum was sentenced to death over the alleged murder of his wife and a microbus driver after his reported voluntarily conversion to Islam. Three years after the verdict had been given, and a few weeks before the implementation of the death penalty, a video was found showing...
Date of source: Monday, April 4, 2005
A Christian citizen brought suit against the grand Shaykh of the Azhar on the pretext that he lured his
daughter to convert to Islam and to leave her family’s house and stay with a Muslim.