Date of source: Saturday, December 9, 2006 to Friday, December 15, 2006
Rajab al-Murshidī from Rose al- Yūsuf meets three members of the panel of evaluation of the Azhar Takfīr thesis who declare that there were many transgressions and errors in the thesis, and reveal that the panel will not accept the thesis unless its author makes certain revisions.
Date of source: Thursday, November 16, 2006
Islamic intellectual Jamāl al-Bannā states that his late brother Hasan al-Bannā, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood group, was in leadership similar to Communist leader Lenin. At the same time, he calls to remove the second article of the Egyptian constitution, which stipulates Islām...
Date of source:
The Egyptian press exposed religious authorities’ and intellectuals’ points of view regarding the violent confrontations between the Palestinians and the Israeli forces; in his interview with al-Musawwar, the Shaykh of the Azhar condemned the Israeli trespassing of al-Aqsá mosque....
Date of source: Thursday, November 2, 2006
In an interview, Bishop Munīr Hannā, the head of the Episcopal Church
in Egypt, North Africa and the African Horn, stresses the peaceful co-existence between Christians and Muslims in
Egypt, urging to share inter-religious dialogue to spread the spirit of understanding rather than
fanaticism.
Date of source: Monday, October 23, 2006
The review deals with the various reactions on al-Ghad weekly supplement entitled “the worst ten figures in Islamic history. Muslim scholars and intellectuals’ opinions are displayed, together with al-Ghad members and leaders’ opinions.
Date of source: Sunday, October 22, 2006
The last two years witnessed increasing Western attacks on Islam. Muslim reactions, however, in many cases Muslims violent reactions, enforced the negative image of Islam. Nevertheless, some Muslim intellectuals called for peaceful reactions through changing the violent image of Islam by showing...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 11, 2006
More than 100 Muslim scholars and university professors signed a statement, in which they condemned the insults to the prophet’s companions, which were published by al- Ghad newspaper on October 4, 2006. The statement indicated that any attack against the prophet’s companions and wives...
Date of source: Friday, September 29, 2006
Dr. al-Bayādī reacts to the
calls for reform of the
electoral process for the position of head of the Evangelical Community Council.
Date of source: Friday, September 29, 2006
Disputes over elections in the
Evangelical Community Council caused escalating
tensions between the Assembly of Kanīsat al-
Ni‘ma [Church of Grace] and the Evangelical
Community Council in Egypt.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 26, 1997
The author argues that there is a big campaign going on now in America and Israel against Egypt and the Arabs. This campaign is carried out under the name of protecting and saving the Christians of the Middle East from persecution, but is in fact aimed at stirring up sectarianism,...