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Pope Tawāḍrūs: Wars drive humanity to seek peace
Date of source: 16 Nov 2024
By Wāʾil ʿAlī
Pope Tawāḍrūs has stated that amidst the wars and suffering of today, humanity is driven to seek peace through Christ’s love.  “Our mission is to be witnesses of Christ and to spread His love everywhere,” said Pope Tawāḍrūs, as he met with a monastic delegation from the Russian Orthodox Church led...
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Grand Imām of al-Azhar selected as one of the World’s 500 most influential Muslims
Date of source: 16 Nov 2024
By Muḥammad Ṣabrī ʿAbd al-Raḥīm‎
The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre (RISSC) in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan released its annual book on the world’s 500 most influential Muslims for 2024/25, with the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyeb, ranked as 13th. The book aims to introduce important figures in the Muslim...
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The Coptic archbishop of Ethiopia
Date of source: 21 Oct 2024
By Majid Kamil
Anbā Kyrillos was born Sīdārūs Marqus Jirjis in al-Naghāmīsh village of al-Balyanā town in the Sūhāj province of southern Egypt, but his year of birth is not accurately known. He was brought up by his father to be a devout Christian, memorized the church hymns and psalms from a young age, and would...
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Recent Far-Right Riots in the United Kingdom: The Resurgence of Racism and Islamophobia in 2024
Date of source: 24 Nov 2024
By Camilla Radwan
   
CEOSS attends COP29 in Azerbaijan
Date of source: 10 Nov 2024
By Teresa Kamāl (Theresa Kamal)
The Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Service (CEOSS) announced it is attending the climate summit COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, from November 11 - November 22, as an official observer from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The participation represents a new...
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Grand Muftī attends COP29 in Azerbaijan
Date of source: 3 Nov 2024
By Luʾay ʿAlī‎
Grand Muftī of Egypt, Dr. Naẓīr ʿAyyād, went to Azerbaijan to attend the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), or COP29, and to also participate in the Global Summit of Religious Leaders, scheduled for November 5-6, where he will deliver a...
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Government announces the legalization of 3,453 churches since 2016
Date of source: 30 Oct 2024
By Ibrāhīm al-Ṭayīb and Ranā Ḥamdī
On 30th October 2024, the Cabinet, led by Prime Minister Muṣṭafā Madbūlī, approved recommendations made by an ad-hoc committee on the legal status of 293 churches, and other church-affiliated buildings. The committee was set up in 2016 based on Article 8 of Law No. 80 on the regulation of the...
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Women’s center examines personal status law for non-Muslims
Date of source: 29 Oct 2024
By Teresa Kamāl (Theresa Kamal)
On 29th October, during a symposium, the Center for Egyptian Women’s Legal Assistance (CEWLA) met in the province of al-Minyā in Upper Egypt to discuss issues about the personal status law of non-Muslims in Egypt. In a lecture, Dr. ʿĀṭif Jamāl, deputy dean of the Faculty of Law at al-Minyā...
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Survey finds that majority of Gaza inhabitants believe Oct. 7 attack was wrong
Date of source: 18 Sep 2024
By No Author Mentioned
A public opinion survey showed that the majority of inhabitants of the Gaza Strip believe the decision of Ḥamās to wage an attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, was “wrong,” revealing a major decline in support for the al-Aqṣā Typhoon operation. The poll, conducted by the Palestinian Center for...
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Azhar Grand Imām attends COP29 in Azerbaijan
Date of source: 9 Nov 2024
By Aḥmad Ramaḍān
Upon an official invitation from the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyeb, is attending the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) summit, or COP29, in Azerbaijan. In his speech, Dr. Ṭayyeb,...
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Public prosecutor tries individual in criminal court for condoning theft of utility services
Date of source: 27 Oct 2024
By Aḥmad Abū al-Najā
Public Prosecutor, Muḥammad Shawqī, ordered that the individual who issued a fatwā allowing for the theft of water, electricity, and gas, be referred to a criminal court on charges of disrespecting family values in Egyptian society. The suspect will be facing charges for publishing a video clip...
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Anbā ʿAmānūʾīl attends Holy Book contest 2024
Date of source: 21 Aug 2024
By Maryam Sharīf
The Archbishop of the Coptic Catholic Diocese of Ṭība (Thebes), Anbā ʿAmānūʾīl ʿAyyād, participated in the Holy Book 2024 contest for elementary, preparatory, and secondary education. After three months of thorough analysis of the Saint Luke Gospel contest, which the Episcopal Committee started for...
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Ḥamās urges Palestinian president to set up National unity government
Date of source: 24 Oct 2024
By Maḥmūd Nawfal
The Palestinian resistance movement Ḥamās called on Russia to urge Palestinian President, Maḥmūd ʿAbbās, to start negotiations on forming a national unity government to run the Gaza Strip after the war. Russian media reported that Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Mikhail Bogdanov, met with Mūsa Abū...
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Netanyahu and the Genocidal Holy War
Date of source: 29 Oct 2024
By Jamīl Jūrjī
Currently, the entire world stands idle yet cannot overlook the severity of the genocide in the Gaza Strip, in which fighters, civilians, children, women, and the elderly have been targeted indiscriminately.  This reaction has provoked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to attempt to...
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Pope Tawāḍrūs addresses rumors behind resignation of Muqaṭṭam bishop
Date of source: 30 Oct 2024
By Muḥammad al-Aḥmadī
Pope Tawāḍrūs of the Coptic Orthodox Church said the al-Muqaṭṭam service has many blessed priests who have offered magnificent service over the years, noting that he remembers Father Samʿān al-Kharrāz, who started his ministry to the church fifty years ago, along with a group of other priests who...
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Ethiopian church announces synod for Tigray church
Date of source: 31 Oct 2024
By Nādir Shukrī
Following a three-day meeting, a group of bishops and archbishops who had split from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church formed the “Tigray Orthodox Tewahedo Church Synod,” an ethnic and regional synod, based on a recently produced “Church canon.” In a 16-point statement, the group stated that Abune...
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Fatwā secretary: Islamic sharīʿa acknowledges women’s rights to inheritance
Date of source: 27 Oct 2024
By Ḥasan Samīr
Dr. Zaynab al-Saʿīd, a fatwā secretary at Dār al-Iftāʾ, said that denying women their inheritance rights is one of the worst offenses a person can commit.  “The Islamic sharīʿa has acknowledged women’s rights to inheritance. Infringement of women’s rights to receive their shares of the inheritance...
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Azhar professor calls out informal ʿurfī marriages used to facilitate financial gains.
Date of source: 27 Oct 2024
By Muḥammad Qādūs
Dr. Hiba ʿŪf, a professor of Qurʾān interpretation at al-Azhar University, said using divorce to get a pension or using ʿurfī (legal but informal) marriage to gain financially are flagrant violations of Islamic and Muslim ethics. “Divorce, according to the Islamic Sharīʿa, is not just a legal...
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Persons found participating in FGM to receive 10-year jail term
Date of source: 22 Oct 2024
By Maryam al-Khaṭrī
According to a representative for the Health & Population Ministry, discussions have taken place surrounding the eradication of female circumcision as a practice in Egypt, with international organizations coming together in a bid to raise awareness on this issue and prevent violence against...
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Grand Imām's mawlid speech generates controversy
Date of source: 19 Sep 2024
By Ḥamdī Dabash
On Monday, September 16, which was the occasion of al-Mawlid al-Nabawī  (the Prophet Muḥammad’s Birthday), Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyeb, Grand Imām of al-Azhar, made a speech that triggered wide-scale controversy in religious and media circles. Delivered in the presence of President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī,...
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