Date of source: Tuesday, October 29, 2024
On 29th October, during a symposium, the Center for Egyptian Women’s Legal Assistance (CEWLA) met in the province of al-Minyā in Upper Egypt to discuss issues pertaining to personal status law of non-Muslims in Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, November 9, 2024
Upon an official invitation from the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyeb, is attending the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) summit, or COP29, in Azerbaijan.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 21, 2024
The Archbishop of the Coptic Catholic Diocese of Ṭība (Thebes), Anbā ʿAmānūʾīl ʿAyyād, participated in the Holy Book 2024 contest for elementary, preparatory, and secondary education.
Date of source: Sunday, October 27, 2024
Dr. Zaynab al-Saʿīd, a fatwā secretary at Dār al-Iftāʾ, said that denying women their inheritance rights is one of the worst offenses a person can commit.
Date of source: Thursday, October 31, 2024
Following a three-day meeting, a group of bishops and archbishops who had split from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church formed the “Tigray Orthodox Tewahedo Church Synod,” an ethnic and regional synod, based on a recently produced “Church canon.”
Date of source: Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Pope Tawāḍrūs of the Coptic Orthodox Church said the al-Muqaṭṭam service has many blessed priests who have offered magnificent service over the years, noting that he remembers Father Samʿān al-Kharrāz, who started his ministry to the church fifty years ago, along with a group of other priests who...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Currently, the entire world stands idle yet cannot overlook the severity of the genocide in the Gaza Strip, in which fighters, civilians, children, women and the elderly have been targeted indiscriminantly.
Date of source: Sunday, October 27, 2024
Dr. Hiba ʿŪf, a professor of Qurʾān interpretation at al-Azhar University, said using divorce to get a pension or using ʿurfī (legal but informal) marriage to gain financially are flagrant violations of Islamic and Muslim ethics.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Media personality Ibrāhīm ʿĪsa has stated that Salafīsm and the Ikhwān (Muslim Brotherhood) represent a major cause of economic deterioration in Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, October 20, 2024
Religion, with all its official institutions, is one of the ideological organs of the state, being used as a mechanism for control, legitimacy, and justification of policies and practices, to the extent that a degree of religious sanctity is given to these institutions, which monopolize the...