Date of source: Thursday, December 5, 2019
This article first appeared in Pokrof in 2011 under the title Strakke Koptische Huwelijkswetgeving leidt tot spanningen; binnenkerkelijk, politiek en interreligieus. AWR reader Dr. Rachel Scott, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 11, 2019
In the immediate wake of the September 11th attacks, Manāl ʿIzzat, a Muslim American engineer at the Pentagon, the headquarters for the American Department of Defense, felt great pain and sadness due to the reactions of her colleagues at the Pentagon. As she walked the halls, she used to hear her...
Date of source: Saturday, October 5, 2019
Human rights activist and member of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms, Mīnā Thābit, uncovered that the Egyptian national security apparatus demanded a church to remove a marble plaque, commemorating the lives of those lost in front of the Maspero Television building in 2011. The...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Diana Sakakini [Diana al-Sakākīnī] was born in Milan, Italy, from the prestigious al-Sakākīnī family of Christian Syrian origins that has left indelible marks in Egypt as the majestic al-Sakākīnī Palace in Old Cairo testifies. She was educated in Italy but later returned to Egypt where her parents...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 24, 2019
The Secretariat General of the Muslim World League, Dr. Shaykh Muḥammad bin ʿAbd al-Karīm al- ʿĪssā, held a historic summit with Patriarch Kirill the First, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, at the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow. The summit is considered to be one of the most important...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 28, 2019
v. Fr. Lūqā Asʿad, bishop of the Church of the Virgin Mary in Rashīd, Buḥayra governorate, has called on the Supreme Constitutional Court to decide on the lawsuit filed by the church acting on behalf of Pope Tawādrūs II, Bishop Bākhūmiyyūs, bishop of Buḥayra, Maṭrūḥ, and the five western cities,...
Date of source: Saturday, August 24, 2019
In the context of the recent Sudanese revolution and civil transformations, this article will follow the systematic persecution of Christians in Sudan.
Instances of persecution of Christians in Sudan are generally isolated and temporary, yet have taken on a systematic nature, especially since...
Date of source: Monday, April 15, 2019
A New Zealand force entered in Syria, to carry out a search for the "New Zealand nurse" Louisa Akavi, whom the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced to be among its three kidnapped officers in Syria in 2013.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 10, 2019
The publishing department of the American University in Cairo, AUC Press, has chosen ‘Coptic Christians and Muslims in Egypt: Two Communities, One Nation’ as their book of the month this June. The authors are Fikrī Andrāwus and Alison Orr-Andrawes, and the book was published in May.
Date of source: Sunday, April 21, 2019
The Minister of Culture Dr. Īnes Abdul-Daīm met in Cairo with the Ambassador of Armenia in Cairo Karen Krikorian to discuss the ways of enhancing intellectual and artistic relations between the two countries.