Date of source: Friday, July 4, 2014
Minister of Endowments, Muhammad Mukhtār Jum’ah, has met a number of Nūr Party leaders including the president of Nūr Party, Yūnis Makhyūn, and Dr. Muhammad Ibrāhīm Mansūr to discuss the “Preaching law” that has led to prohibiting Salafi preachers from giving sermons.
Date of source: Monday, June 30, 2014
Dr. Muhamad Mukhtār Gum’ah, Minister of Endowments, announced a new covenant for honorable religious advocacy for imams and preachers. This covenant was approved and signed by al-Azhar’s High Sheikh and represents both a promise to God, as well as a responsibility to uphold the law.
Date of source: Monday, June 23, 2014
Minister of Culture, Jābbir ‘Asfūr, criticized the position of the Azhar on the movie Noah. He stated that he shall not follow nor is he committed to the opinion of the Azhar.
Date of source: Thursday, January 30, 2014
The Ministry of Endowments announced that two preachers’ convoys are heading to the Sinai today under the auspices of the Azhar Shaykh, Dr. al–Tayyīb, to give the Friday sermon and a number of religious lectures and seminars with people in Sinai, particularly youth (Muhammad ‘Antar, al- Shurūq, Jan...
Date of source: Saturday, June 7, 2014
Minister of Endowments, Muhammad Mukhtār Jum’ah, has held a closed meeting with a number of deputies of the ministry, to discuss the mechanisms of implementing the “Religious Preaching and Sermons Giving Law” in mosques.
Date of source: Sunday, May 25, 2014
The Ministry of Endowments has requested all departments and offices affiliated to it to allow the employees to ‘fulfill their national duty’ and take part in the elections .
Date of source: Monday, March 19, 2012
Several parties and political movements expressed deep grief over the death of Pope Shenouda, including al-Wafd Party that voiced mourning in a statement to the Egyptian people – Muslims and Christians – over the departure of “a patriotic leader that was always interested in Egypt and its national...
Date of source: Friday, February 17, 2012 to Monday, April 16, 2018
Youths from the Salafī al-Nūr (Light) Party and al-Da'wah al-Salafīyah (Salafī Call) group rejected the expulsion of Christians from al-'Āmrīyah, according to al-Nūr's official spokesman Nādir Bakkār.
"The Salafīs have defended the Christians, protected them from local residents' wrath and...
Date of source: Thursday, January 26, 2012
Thousands in Shubrā went on a march to al-Tahrīr Square, demanding an end to military rule, stressing national unity and completing the goals of the revolution. [Rānyā Rabī’ and Muhammad ‘Antar, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, Jan. 26, p. 4]
Date of source: Saturday, January 7, 2012
Dr. Yāsir Burhāmī, the deputy head of the Salafī Da’wah (Call) Movement, said fears about Islamists’ winning nearly one-quarter of seats in the coming parliament despite a relentless campaign against them as “illusion” made by “liberal mass media through lies in order to curb their presence in...