Date of source: Saturday, March 31, 2012
The scholars said that religious groups “have to return to their barracks”!
“It was a vital matter that the Azhar take its representative out of the constitution assembly simply because it is not proper for the stature of the Azhar to participate in a panel marked by domination not partnership and...
Date of source: Friday, March 30, 2012
Furthermore, the Azhar officially announced quitting the constituent assembly due to low representation.
Members of the Islamic Research Academy, during a meeting at the Azhar headquarters led by Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb, stated that the Azhar’s role was crucially marginalized in a country...
Date of source: Friday, March 30, 2012
Furthermore, the Azhar officially announced quitting the constituent assembly due to low representation.
Members of the Islamic Research Academy, during a meeting at the Azhar headquarters led by Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb, stated that the Azhar’s role was crucially marginalized in a country...
Date of source: Friday, March 30, 2012
Furthermore, the Azhar officially announced quitting the constituent assembly due to low representation.
Members of the Islamic Research Academy, during a meeting at the Azhar headquarters led by Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb, stated that the Azhar’s role was crucially marginalized in a country...
Date of source: Friday, March 30, 2012
Furthermore, the Azhar officially announced quitting the constituent assembly due to low representation.
Members of the Islamic Research Academy, during a meeting at the Azhar headquarters led by Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb, stated that the Azhar’s role was crucially marginalized in a country...
Date of source: Thursday, March 29, 2012
Monastery of Saint Macarius (Dayr Abū Maqār) in Wādī al-Natrūn is witnessing a crisis among monks who want Bishop Mikhael of Asyut to become the head of the monastery once again.
Nearly 70 monks, disciples of Father Mattá al-Miskīn, collected signatures and sent a memo to acting patriarch Bishop...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 27, 2012
The source also revealed that expatriate Copts will have the opportunity to vote over the next patriarch for the first time. [Ahmad al-Sa’dāwī, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, March 27, p. 3] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Monday, March 26, 2012
Archpriest Father ‘Abd al-Misīh Basīt of Musturud Church said that the Constitution panel was a religious one, but never patriotic, adding that the five Christians chosen to be members in the assembly do not represent the Egyptian churches. He added that clerics from the three Orthodox, Evangelical...
Date of source: Monday, March 26, 2012
Archpriest Father ‘Abd al-Misīh Basīt of Musturud Church said that the Constitution panel was a religious one, but never patriotic, adding that the five Christians chosen to be members in the assembly do not represent the Egyptian churches. He added that clerics from the three Orthodox, Evangelical...
Date of source: Monday, February 27, 2012
An opinion piece in al-Shurūq al-Jadīd newspaper criticized possible presidential candidate Dr. Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awwā in al-Gharbia governorate, in which the prominent man of law with profound knowledge and study of the Islamic sharī’ah said, “75% of the Egyptians have said YES to God,” in...