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Date of source: Sunday, November 18, 2012
All eyes are set today (November 18) on the Saint Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-ʿAbbāssīya to follow up the church’s celebrations of the enthronement of Bishop Tawāḍrūs II as the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church in succession of Pope Shinūdā III, who passed away in March, to be...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Clerics have cautioned people against using the month of Ramadan for sleep, laziness and inactivity. Dr. Ahmad ‘Amr Hāshim, former President of the Azhar University, warned against sleeping through the hours of fasting and waking at the dusk call to prayer.
Date of source: Sunday, July 8, 2012
The salafī al-Nūr Party severely slammed Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb for rejecting to provide explanations for the word “principles” in the constitution, urging him to issue a statement indicating why he insists on keeping Article II unchanged. [Hamdī Dabash, ‘Usāmah al-Mahdī,...
Date of source: Sunday, June 10, 2012
On June 11, 2012, the Egyptian People's Assembly will discuss a report by its Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee, dealing with the criteria for selection of the members of the Constituent Assembly.
Meanwhile, the People's Assembly is receiving nominations for membership of the...
Date of source: Friday, March 30, 2012
Several Coptic organizations and movements held a press conference to announce their refusal of the current constituent assembly drafting Egypt's post-revolution constitution, which Najīb Jubrā’īl, head of the Egyptian Union of Human Rights Organization, said marginalized all segments of the...
Date of source: Friday, November 11, 2011
A number of the Azhar Scholars, members of the “Egyptian Family House” and the three Egyptian churches welcomed the draft law on building houses of worship. They all asked for its issuance as soon as possible in order to face the sectarian fitnah that takes place every now and then. The Azhar...
Date of source: Thursday, October 13, 2011
Islamic law allows Copts to build churches in Islamic countries, Egyptian Grand Mufti Ali Gomma said in a statement on Wednesday.
Gomma said in the statement that Dar al-Ifta, which issues religious edicts, earlier said that Christians and Jews are allowed to build their own places of worship.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Dr. Nasr Farīd Wāsil, former muftī of the Republic, said that he supports the political isolation of the former regime and accused the regime's symbols of corrupting the political life. He called to apply God's law on them by isolating, exiling, or killing them following proof of their corruption.
Date of source: Friday, July 8, 2011
The Islamic Research Academy, headed by Dr. Ahmed al-Tayeb, stressed that al-Azhar is the sole academic authority in the Islamic world, and that no one from any other body, or even those from within al-Azhar, have a right to offer themselves as an alternative, or to speak on behalf of, the affairs...
Date of source: Friday, July 8, 2011
Members of the Islamic Research Academy with al-Azhar have confirmed they are a reference in the Islamic world, and can be an advisory facet in matters of religion and the application of Sharia, as well as publish texts on developments of Muslim affairs.
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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.