Date of source: Monday, August 19, 2013
Preachers: clinging to power has nothing to do with religion and is a crime against Islam
A number of preachers have made a statement and affirmed that desperately clinging to power, provoking sedition and propagating chaos, is not Islamic. They say that trying to justify bloodshed and calling for...
Date of source: Monday, August 19, 2013
The “Coptic Scream” movement launched a campaign called “No to Brotherhoodization of Education”.
Date of source: Monday, August 19, 2013
The Minister of Endowments said that there is no room for politics in mosques, and that there are extremists exploiting the current crises to involve mosques in political conflict. He said that there is complete cooperation between the Ministry of Endowments and Al-Azhar to arrange a committee of...
Date of source: Saturday, August 17, 2013
The security forces closed the monastery of St. Catherine in south Sinai for an indefinite period, due to lack of security and out of fear of an attack against it. Meanwhile, thousands of Egyptians took part in the formation of popular committees to protect churches in various provinces. A...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Security forces in North Sinai launched a wide campaign in South ʿArish after two mortars were launched targeting the military base in al-ʿArish’s al-Salām neighborhood. Security sources reported that the campaign, which consisted of a thorough search of local cars and neighborhoods, resulted in...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 14, 2014
In the confessions of the third defendant in Ansār Bayt al- Maqdis case, Muhammad Bakrī Harūn, stated that he received orders from the group to steal the cars of Copts during the sit-in at the ‘Itihāddiyah [Presidential] Palace [December 2012].
Date of source: Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Dr. Saʿd al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, director of the Ibn Khaldūn Centre, traveled to Israel to participate in a symposium on Egypt organized by the Tel Aviv University.
Dubbed ‘Political Upheaval in Egypt: A History Reconsidered’, former ambassador to Israel in Egypt and currently teaching at the Israeli...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Egyptian Columnist Muḥammad Ḥamādīwrites this week:
“Copt” in the ancient Egyptian language means “ancient Egyptian” and therefore we are all Copts, we are all Egyptians.
The Egyptians have sensed the danger of sedition and division but the Egyptian people are standing tall and united throughout...
Date of source: Thursday, May 1, 2014
Dr. Abāss Shūman, Deputy of the Azhar, stated that recently incorrect fatwá’s became widespread, due to some self- proclaimed shaykhs who are ignorant in religious knowledge and sharī’ah.
Date of source: Saturday, May 17, 2014
A cautious calm is returning to the Azhar’s male dormitories in Nasr City, Cairo, after the security forces were capable of ending the acts of violence that students possibly affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood started yesterday (May 16) after the Friday prayers.