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A battle for seats has been taking place in the Azhar after the promotion in March of Sheikh Sayed Wafa Agour from head of the Fatwa Committee to deputy sheikh al-Azhar. Sheikh Sha’arawi believed he should have been promoted and voiced his protest over the decision to the sheikh al-Azhar. Shara’...
A leading figure in the extremist Gama’at al-Islamiya, Ayman Abdel Aziz, handed himself to the security department, a step which was interpreted by the Egyptian authorities as a " big change inside the movement". An active ex member of the terrorist group revealed details about the activities of...
"Lola Al-Molaa", the secretary-general of the Women Cultural Association in Kuwait warned people about crimes of individual assault and some other crimes, which some people are trying to say, are motivated by and acceptable on religious grounds. Her warning came as a comment on the recent attack on...
Currently, the preparations are taking place in the Azhar for the Conference of "The role of religious education in supporting spiritual beliefs". This conference goes beyond the dialogue between religions through the co-operation of the Azhar University with Saint Thomas University in Rome. It is...
Archbishop Lotfy Liham, the general deputy patriarch for the Greek Catholics in Jerusalem confirmed that Muslims and Christians are suffering a lot in the Holy city. The blockade that is imposed upon the city makes the city isolated from the rest of the country. It is bad enough that Palestinians-...
In his recent seminar about the "situation in Jerusalem", Bishop Lotfi Laham, the deputy Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem", explained the details of the Jewish practices in order to pressure Arabs [Christians and Moslems] to leave the city. " Jerusalem has 160 thousand Arabs,...
Recently, Egypt has witnessed an honest and great competition between Muslims and Christians in Egypt. We have found that the Christian is donating for building a mosque and the Muslim is donating for restoring a church for the Copts. All this is for the benefit of society and its development. We...
The government has ignored the fulfillment of the President’s orders concerning compensation for the victims in spite of the great losses many citizens suffered in Al-Kosheh, Dar Al-Salaam, and some of the neighboring villages. The losses amounted to a quarter of a million pounds in some shops and...
The comment of Dr. Yehya Hashem Farghal on the article "Islam’s stand towards Christian and Jewish faith" by Magdy Hussein, chief editor of Al Shaab newspaper, was followed by another comment of General Mohamed Shebl, which was published on April 14th, 2000. The author of the present article made...
Dr. Emara summarized in five points his opinion regarding the controversial article "Islam’s stand towards Christian and Jewish faith" by Magdy Hussein, Chief editor of Al-Shaab newspaper. 1- They are not the same, and we can’t put them in one basket and judge "it is not fair". 2- Monotheism,...
This woman opened the door in the passageway of the courts of personal status, for tortured Christian women to get a divorce. F.F., a Coptic businesswoman, took a short cut to divorce by asking for the Khula’ law to be applied to her according to the new personal status law, after changing her...
Pope Shenouda III reacted to the American allegation of discrimination against the Christian minority in Egypt, in a dialogue with the Egyptian writer Sanaa El Said, which was published in her book "Pope Shenouda’s world and religion". The pope refused the law of "Religious Persecution" issued in...
Happy year to all of you as today is one of the five main feasts for Christians in Egypt. These are five days for which we fight every year to convince some of the organizations or companies, banks, universities, institutes with the rights of the Copts who are working or studying there that they...
For three days, Al-Khanka had lived in nervousness after a sit-in-strike, by Copts inside a Church which was closed ten years ago, threatened to cause communal unrest. The following report tells of the crisis, and the wise role of Pope Shenouda who was responsible for it ending peacefully. Last...
The next parliamentary elections in Egypt will be the last chance for the government to establish a national coherence, and to renew trust in political reform. Copts are now more interested in political participation, as they became aware of the danger of their political isolation, so that the...
Does Christianity despise women? Does it see her as a second-class person and a dirty creature that does not have the rights of men? Many of the beliefs concerning women that are thought to be religious are actually a result of the effect of society and its habits and rituals. Christian women...
A lot of complaints have been reported recently, due to decisions forbidding travel, many institutions have the right to impose a ban and the people affected do not get any prior notification. Dr. Mohamed Merghani Khairi, professor of law at the University of Ain Shams, urged the authorities to...
--- Dr. Mahmoud Zaqzouq, the Minister of Awqaf, said that the new marriage agreement did not contradict the Islamic Shari’a because Islam gives both parties the right to set conditions provided that they do not oppose the Shari’a. --- Dr. Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi said that Islam does not object to...
In the symposium that was held in the Cairo Center for Human Rights the attendants agreed to support the freedom of "Ijtihad" and the people who try to do it, because it is not only the case of Abdel Sabour Shahin, it is the case of freedom. The foremost invited guest of the symposium was Dr....
Dr. Nasr Abu Zeid sent a fax to the symposium that was held in the Cairo Center for Human Rights in which he supported Dr. Abdel Sabour Shahin and his freedom of expression. He also accused Dr. Abdel Sabour Shahin of offering Dr. Nasr’s wife to find another husband. The offer stated that he would...

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