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Date of source: Wednesday, February 26, 2025
In a TV message read out by Aḥmad al-Tawfīq, the Minister of Ḥabūs and Islamic Affairs, King Muḥammad VI calls on Moroccans not to perform the ritual sacrifice of ʿEīd al-Aḍḥa.
Date of source: Saturday, March 1, 2025
Many Moroccans warmly welcomed the announcement by the Minister of Religious Endowments, Aḥmad al-Tawfīq, about the cancellation of this year’s ‘Eid al-Aḍḥā sacrifice, especially given that it will spare a large part of the population from the soaring livestock prices that had skyrocketed last year...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 24, 2024
On the instructions of the King, a communication meeting was held in Rabat on Tuesday, 24 December 2024, to present the proposals for revising the Family Code, or Moudawana. These proposals will be put to a vote in Parliament.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Minister of Justice ʿAbdel Laṭīf Wahbī has revealed in a meeting on Tuesday in Rabat the key proposed amendments as part of the redraft of the Moroccan family code, for which a royal working session was held on Monday.
Date of source: Thursday, December 26, 2024
Amendments expected to be added to the Moroccan Family Code have sparked large-scale controversy, with many considering the country’s personal status law, known as the Family Code, as a “major reform in regulating family affairs and protecting the rights of individuals.”
Date of source: Thursday, October 17, 2024
On Wednesday, 16th October, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune accused “extremist circles in France” of “attempting to distort collective memory and consign it to oblivion.”
Date of source: Thursday, October 31, 2024
Following a three-day meeting, a group of bishops and metropolitans who had split from the main Ethiopian Orthodox Church established an ethnic and regional synod known as the “Tigray Orthodox Tewahedo Church Synod” based on a recently published canon law.
Date of source: Monday, October 21, 2024
Anbā Kyrillos was born Sīdārūs Marqus Jirjis in al-Naghāmīsh village of al-Balyanā town in the Sūhāj province of southern Egypt, but his year of birth is not accurately known. He was brought up by his father to be a devout Christian, and memorized the church hymns and psalms from a young age, and...
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, September 18, 2024
Reverend Andrew C. Wheeler is a specialist on Christianity in Sudan, African church history, and the modern history of Sudan. He is the author of Day of Contentment, Day of Devastation: The History of the Sudanese Church across 2,000 Years and Bombs, Ruins, and Honey: Journeys of the Spirit with...
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Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.