Date of source: Thursday, November 30, 2006
Copts recently
celebrated the thirty-fifth anniversary of Pope Shenouda’s consecration as patriarch of the See of St.
Mark.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 5, 2006
A conference held at the Azhar
University, attended by Muslim scholars and medical
doctors from Africa, Asia and Europe, condemns female
circumcision and denies that it is a religious
practice.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 5, 2006
The Egyptian press has widely covered the four-day visit that Pope Benedict XVI paid to Turkey from November 28 to December 1, 2006 in an obvious attempt to heal the wounds opened by his earlier "offensive" remarks on Islam and the Prophet Muhammad. According to political analysts, the pontiff’s...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 29, 2006
This article says that
Najīb Mahfūz’s novel ‘Awlād Haritna,’ and Salman Rushdie’s ‘Satanic
Verses’ triggered an apostasization campaign throughout the Islamic world.
Date of source: Monday, November 27, 2006
The author talks about his feeling in seeing the
pope in good health attending President Mubarak’s
speech at the People’s Assembly, and sitting side by side
to the Shaykh of the Azhar, Muhammad al-
Tantāwī, as an indication of “national
unity.”
Date of source:
Many
conferences about terrorism and the distorted image of Arabs and Muslims in the Western media
were held last week.
The International Council for Mission and Aid held an inter-religious dialogue
conference in the Azhar. The Islamic
Council for inter-civilization dialogue and the Islamic...
Date of source:
The Washington Post newspaper
published a statement directed from the Copts of Egypt to emigrant Copts. The statement stressed that Copts
in
Egypt are enjoying a good life and that the last three years witnessed the exertion of great efforts, on
the part
of the Egyptian government, to solve...
Date of source:
Azhar
scholars rejected
Prof. Abdel-Mo’ti Bayoumi’s Fatwá that allows a couple not able to bear children to
implant their zygote in the
womb of another woman. They announced him a deviant from true Islām. Bayoumi
said he is ready to turn from this
fatwa if any medical discovery proved that...
Date of source: Saturday, July 26, 2008
The American delegation investigating religious freedoms in Egypt started its meetings with Egyptian prominent religious and public figures. The delegation’s visit to Egypt is receiving wide criticism by almost all Egyptian organisations, intellectuals, and political parties.
Date of source:
Both Pope Shenouda and the Grand Imām declared their rejection
of any foreign intervention
in the internal affairs of Egypt. The former said that he met the American committee to
defend Egypt and to
explain to its members that what the foreign press publishes and what the internet broadcasts...