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...
Date of source: Thursday, March 13, 2014
A proposal to amend Article 20 of the Moroccan Personal Status Law Code, specifically concerning the marriage of minors under the age of 18, has caused division among the ruling majority and opposition groups within the country’s House of Representatives. Demands were made by the progressive...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Anṣār al-Sharīʿa (Supporters of Islamic Law), an extremist group in Libya that the UN and the US had classified as “terrorists,” declared in a statement that it had disbanded itself.
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Intercultural and interreligious dialogue brought Cornelis Hulsman from a conservative Christian Reformed bubble in the Netherlands to a deeply ecumenical attitude, refraining from absolutist statements about faith since any religion is the outcome of a human search for meaning in life.
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This text about Dutch Arabist and scholar of Islam Prof. Dr. Johannes (Hans) G. Jansen (1942-2015) is based on Cornelis Hulsman’s personal experiences with Prof.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 5, 2023
The Monitoring Unit for African Languages of al-Azhar Observatory for Combatting Extremism continued its persistent follow-up on the activities of terrorist organizations in the African continent, which are led by ISIS (Dāʿesh) and al-Qāʿeda, as well as its off-shoots such as the organizations of...
Date of source: Saturday, September 30, 2023
The U.S. State Department said in a new report that religious tolerance was a “hallmark of Morocco’s history.”
Date of source: Friday, September 22, 2023
In partnership with the Euro-Mediterranean Center for the Study of Islam, al-Qādirīya al-Bōdshīshīya Ṣūfī Order is convening the 18th edition of the World Ṣūfī Forum under the rubric, “Sufism and religious and patriotic values for the establishment of a comprehensive citizenship.”
Date of source: Saturday, September 9, 2023
Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmed al-Ṭayyīb, offered his sincerest condolences to King Moḥammed VI of Morocco and the Moroccan people after a deadly earthquake struck several provinces and cities in the North African country and left thousands of victims killed or wounded.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 7, 2023
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC) has officially accused the government of Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Aḥmed, of involvement in supporting a group of priests who defected from the church. The EOTC has urged the government in a statement to “offer an official apology for its collusion...