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Sinai University has summoned Maī ʿAbdullah, a dentistry student in the first grade, to be investigaed on charges of contempt of religion, after she has been accused of insulting the prophet Muḥammad, and mocking the ḥijāb and heaven, as well as adherents of Islam. The dean of the faculty of...
The Egyptian Ministry of Awqāf (religious endowments) has issued a statement in response to the circulation online of a video showing an imām playing football with a group of youths inside a mosque. The Ministry discredited the video, stating that it was an old clip that had been re-shared on...
Egyptian Prosecutor General Ḥamāda al-Ṣāwī ordered to investigate the circulating posts on social media sites by a Tik Tok user, known as the “Egyptian Prince” (al-Prince al-Miṣrī), after he posted videos promoting contempt of the Christian religion. The accused is set to be arrested and questioned...
In his video, the Azhari shaykh Mabrūk ʿAṭiya mocked Christ saying he is not a ‘sayyid’ (venerated leader) as people refer to him. The video was a response to journalist and TV host Ibrāhīm ʿĪsā dating back to 2016 but was re-posted recently about the values in Jesus Christ’s ‘Sermon on the Mount.’
Dr. Mabrūk ʿAṭiya, professor of Islamic Sharia at al-Azhar University, is again raising controversy because of his statements about Jesus Christ, which some considered as mockery of Jesus.
The Monastery of St. Samuel the Confessor in Jabal al-Qalamūn in Minya, warned against any social media pages belonging to the monastery that speak in their name. They emphasized that they are not responsible for any accounts posting on social media with their name.
ʿAlāʾ Mubārak, son of former president Ḥusnī Mubārak, responded to MP Muṣṭafā Bakrī’s statement in which he stated that it was the former president who issued the decision to concede the islands Tīrān and Ṣanāfīr, saying, “Mr. Muṣṭafā Bakrī… stop distorting and falsifying history.”
Interview with Professor Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi, Founder of the Wasatia Movement in Palestine and Director of the Wasatia Academic Institute in Jerusalem. Conducted by former CAWU intern Janneke Wijman on May 5th, 2020, via online platform Zoom. Both Janneke Wijman and Dr. Dajani Daoudi agreed...
His Holiness Pope Tawāḍrūs II, Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church, denied that the Church had handed over the two monks accused of killing the head of the St. Macarius Monastery [Dayr Abū Maqār], bishop Epiphanius [Ipīphāniyyūs], as a scapegoat for their execution.
Social media sites were buzzing with heated discussions after circulating photos of a mosque under construction with pharaonic inscriptions and motifs in a village in al-Fayūm governorate, south of Cairo.

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