Date of source: Monday, June 27, 2005
Thousands of problems are being sent to Pope Shenouda’s office since June 1993, when he issued a law forbidding the marriage of a woman to her brother-in-law and the man to his sister-in-law after their husband and wife’s deaths….
Date of source: Saturday, June 18, 2005 to Friday, June 24, 2005
Rome established the meaning of citizenship, the citizen’s rights and duties. The Roman citizen was a member in a centesimal council managed by an elected person. The councils’ managers formed the National Assembly that chose their leader and decided on what official employees and members of the...
Date of source: Saturday, June 18, 2005 to Friday, June 24, 2005
Public Prosecutor Māhir ‘Abd al-Wāhid ordered the release of 463 persons suspected of belonging to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, but retained the custody of 37 others on charges of staging unlicensed marches in several areas in Egypt on May 3, 6 and 14, 2005.
Date of source: Saturday, December 4, 2004 to Friday, December 10, 2004
Journalist Sekina Fouad has written in Al-Ahram on November 25, 2004 that “Thank God that the Grand Imam of the Azhar has said catching locusts with the aim of eating them is not a must but rather an optional because I did not want to miss a duty after the fatwa committee called for catching and...
Date of source: Thursday, November 25, 2004
Thank God that the Grand Imam of the Azhar has said catching locusts with the aim of eating them is not a must but rather an option because I did not want to miss a duty. I hope I did not miss any of his fatwas, in case there was any, concerning highly serious issues related to nutritional security...
Date of source: Thursday, December 26, 2002
The Mufti of Egypt explains that some journalists committed mistakes in their reports about the fatwa of the Islamic Research Institute concerning bank interest. They reported that the fatwa permits bank "interest" while it permits bank "profits." They reported that the fatwa permits all ways of...
Date of source: Saturday, December 28, 2002 to Friday, January 3, 2003
The Sheikh of the Azhar believes that the best, Islamic way to deal with banks is deputyship, i.e. to authorize the bank to invest one´s money, especially if he has no time or experience in trade and investment.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 10, 2002
Different reports on whether or not Christians in Islamic countries are persecuted: 30.1 Hermann Schalück OFM Persecuted Christians? Introduction 30.2 Johannes Müller SJ Religious Freedom - Aspirations and Reality Reflections on the Complex Relationship between Christians and Muslims 30.3 Theodor...
Date of source: Sunday, December 15, 2002
Al-Arabi reprinted the text of an article by Dr. Naser Hamid Abu Zeid in the Lebanese magazine “Al-Adab” [literature], under the title “Censorship in Egypt.” It shows that there is a continuous censorship over Egyptian minds, starting with the press and ending with scientific research and artistic...
Date of source: Sunday, October 27, 2002
Youssef Sidhom printed in March an article written by the Saudi Prince Talal Bin Abdel - Aziz on the importance of The Survival of Arab Christians, and was criticized for this by a reader who presented him an article with a list of examples of how Christians are treated in Saudi Arabia.