Date of source: Thursday, October 13, 2022
Bahrain is preparing to welcome Pope Francis I in the coming November in his second visit to the Gulf after signing the Document of Human Fraternity in the USA in 2019, where Pope Francis met the Shaykh al-Azhar and the Council of Muslim Elders. Bahrain is known for its efforts in religious...
Date of source: Saturday, August 6, 2022
This year we celebrate the bicentenary of Champollion decoding the Rosetta Stone. The key to his success was the Coptic language, the final descendant of the Ancient Egyptian language.
Date of source: Thursday, December 16, 2021
Last November, an Egyptian court sentenced lawyer and intellectual Aḥmad ʿAbduh Māhir to five years in prison for “contempt of religion” because of his book The Nation’s Misguidance in the Jurisprudence of the Imams, which criticized religious heritage. The court concluded that the book violated...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 27, 2022
ʿĀzir Mikhāʾīl Yūsuf ʿAṭā, nephew of Pope Cyril [Kīrillus] VI, has shared a rare collection of photos of the placing of the foundation stone of the Greater Cathedral of the Coptic Orthodox in Abbassia, Cairo.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Fr. Yūwāqīm, Coptic Orthodox Bishop of Isna and Armant, has taken a pastoral visit to the Holy Land. He was accompanied on his journey to Jerusalem by several fathers and priests.
Date of source: Friday, July 1, 2022
Fr. Dr. Emilio Platti (1943-2021) sadly suddenly passed away on October 25, 2021. His latest book De Koran herontdekt, Averbode: Uitgeverij Averbode|Erasme N.V, 2020, 96 pages, discusses the context in which the Qur’an came into being or as Muslims would formulate this, “was revealed.” In this...
Date of source: Friday, July 1, 2022
Fr. Emilio Platti (1943-2021) sadly suddenly passed away on October 25, 2021. Dutch Arabist and journalist Eildert Mulder decided to honor his memory through a book review of his latest book De Koran herontdekt, Averbode: Uitgeverij Averbode|Erasme N.V, 2020, 96 pages.[1] Platti’s book describes...
Date of source: Thursday, August 18, 2022
Dr. Muḥammad Mukhtār Jumʿa, Minister of Awqāf, congratulated Shaykh Jābir Ṭāyiʿ Yūsif Sulṭān, former head of the religious sector at the Ministry of Awqāf, on obtaining a PhD from the Faculty of Arts, Minūfiya University, for a thesis entitled, “Egypt’s Ministry of Awqāf Efforts in spreading...
Date of source: Monday, May 30, 2022
Orthodox Rabbi Moshe Peleg responded in questions and answers with Cornelis Hulsman to the article of Dr. Nājiyya ʿAbd al-Mughnī Saʿīd, vice president of the Egyptian Moral Rearmament Association (EMRA) about the death of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh [Shīrīn Abū ʿĀklih]. Please read Dr...
Date of source: Thursday, May 26, 2022
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina organizes the fourth webinar of the 12th Coptic cultural season titled “A Survey of Coptic Heritage in the City of Rashid” and delivered by Mr. Saʿīd Rakhā, Director General of Rashid National Museum, on Monday, May 30.