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On Tuesday, Pope Benedict will start a four-day visit to Turkey amidst growing protests in Istanbul and Ankara. Tens of thousands took to the streets and chanted anti-pope slogans, expressing their fury at the pope’s remarks on Islām which he made two months ago in a lecture at the University of...
On Tuesday, thousands of Copts and 80 bishops converged in St. Mark’s Cathedral in al-‘Abbāsīyah to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Pope Shenouda’s consecration as the pope of Alexandria. The celebration was marked by speeches from bishops from the Coptic Orthodox Church, and...
This press review discusses the growing influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egyptian political life, and their constant efforts to control educational institutions, including governmental schools. In al-Musawwar magazine, ‘Abd al-Qādir Shāhīb linked the recent support of some Egyptian...
The Coptic Orthodox Church is currently celebrating the return of Pope Shenouda III to Egypt after undergoing spinal surgery at the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America. The celebrations coincided with the 35th anniversary of His Holiness’ enthronement as pope of Alexandria...
This year’s student union elections in Egyptian universities were marred by violence and clashes between students affiliated with the "outlawed" Muslim Brotherhood and security forces. Muhammad Nūr from Ākhir Sā‘ah said that the group’s students violated university regulations governing...
Dispute over two qirats of land in the Upper Egyptian village of Dayr al- Barshā, Minia governorate, ended up with six people killed and 12 others wounded.
Sources from the Coptic Orthodox Church announced that Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark is in excellent condition and is recovering properly after undergoing a spinal surgery in Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America. The pope has started...
The widespread phenomenon of the Niqāb in Egyptian society has provoked strong reaction from many thinkers and writers, as well as from well-known European politicians, including Jack Straw, the leader of the House of Commons, who said in a recent statement that wearing the "full veil" [...
Explaining the broad meaning of the concept of jihād in Islām, Muslim thinker Rajab al-Bannā quoted famous British writer Karen Armstrong’s definition of it as "struggle and effort, not a synonym for holy war as Westerners define it." Ahmad ‘Izz al-Dīn al-‘Arab wrote in a short article in al-...
More than 100 Muslim scholars and university professors signed a statement, in which they condemned the insults to the prophet’s companions, which were published by al- Ghad newspaper on October 4, 2006. The statement indicated that any attack against the prophet’s companions and wives...

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