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The Institute of Coptic Studies is the most prominent education institution of the Coptic Orthodox Church, focusing on studies of Coptic history, civilization, heritage, and culture. The institute’s chairman is Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Patriarch of the See of Saint...
Reviewed by ʿAmr al-Misrī
Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
The Hadāʾiq al-Qubba, al-Waylī, and al-ʿAbbāsīya churches sector organized a ceremony to hand out awards for winners in the November 2021 contest of “Our Youths Reading” initiative, launched the previous month with the aim of encouraging the youth to read. Throughout November, young people competed...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
A professor of Islamic studies at the German University of Münster, Dr. ʿĀṣim Ḥifnī, said that the renewal of religious discourse is the issue of the hour, and has been for perhaps every hour since Islam was revealed to this day. “Contemplating the issue from a position of hopes and aspirations...
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Christians in Egypt celebrated the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, ending in a fast of 15 days, as churches held prayers for two weeks in morning masses. Thousands came to seek blessings after the Virgin Mary fasting in the archeological Church of the Virgin Mary in the Musṭurud district in al-...
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Dialogue with an American Jewish perspective on the October crisis in Israel/Palestine Many people in the West who see the horrific news of killings and abductions of Israeli citizens by Hamas respond in great agony. I have been living in Israel and the Arab World and do not believe that simply...
Al-Azhar hailed the “great people of Palestine and the Arab and Muslim nation, who won the honor of the shahāda (martyrdom) as steadfast defenders of their homeland and their cause — the Palestinian issue — to which they, we, and each and every human of integrity all over the world are devoted.” In...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
This Tuesday evening (October 24), a convoy from the Egyptian Alms and Charity House (Bayt al-Zakāt wal Ṣadaqāt) arrived at the Rafaḥ gate on the Egyptian-Palestinian border to provide relief to the people of Gaza. This was done under the auspices of His Eminence, the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr....
Reviewed by Nuhā Ḥurayba
Translator Nuhā Ḥurayba
[DAB Editorial Note: The following translation was taken from the formal Abuna website.] The Council of the Heads of Churches in Jordan has announced the cancellation of all Christmas celebrations and festivities this year out of respect for the innocent victims and for their blood shed in Gaza...
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Translator Munir Bayouk
The former dean at the Faculty of Islamic Daʿwa (calls) at al-Azhar University, Dr. Ahmad Rabēʿ, said that the Arab-Zionist conflict at the present time is between the Arabs and a Zionist secular movement that relies on religion because it perceives that distancing itself from religion would have...
Reviewed by Nuhā Ḥurayba
Translator Nuhā Ḥurayba
Today (Saturday), the Israeli army bombed al-Azhar University in al-Mughrāqa in Gaza, in continuation of the crimes committed against the Palestinian people that began in early October and are still going on to this moment. The bombing of the Islamic institution coincided with hostile Israeli...
Reviewed by Nuhā Ḥurayba
Translator Nuhā Ḥurayba
Senior leaders and representatives of the world's major religions are preparing for the World Religious Leaders Summit, which will be held this week in Abu Dhabi under the leadership of the President of the UAE, Sheikh Muḥammad bin Zāyed Āl-Nahyān. The summit will highlight the important role of...
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Translator Nuhā Ḥurayba
Supervisor of the Hebrew language department at al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism, Dr. Wissām Ḥashād, said that the Zionist occupation is not stopping its systematic racist campaign to eliminate the Palestinian people, pointing out that the time of this war coincides with the olive...
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Translator Nuhā Ḥurayba
Al-Azhar has said that the targeting of innocent displaced people in a school sheltering them, along with others on a coastal road, and the massacre of citizens in Gaza’s al-Shifāʾ Hospital, as well as the killing of convoys of wounded people and the bombing of ambulances, have all put the...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Today, the number of Palestinian Christians in Palestine does not exceed 1 percent, although they constituted nearly 12 percent of the population before the year of 1948. What is the main reason for their decline in numbers? And why do they migrate to other lands to live? What is the relationship...
Reviewed by Nuhā Ḥurayba
Translator Nuhā Ḥurayba
Some women resort to khulʿ as a way to terminate their marriage in the case of failing to be able to leave their husband with the standard way of divorce. However, some women are concerned about certain issues regarding the matrimonial home, such as the fate of their property, as well as child...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
On Sunday (November 5), the Ṣūfī orders are marking the anniversary of the arrival of the head of the Prophet Muḥammad’s grandson, Imām al-Ḥusayn, in Egypt. The al-Rifāʿīya Order followers will be holding their annual celebrations at the headquarters of the General Sheikhdom of Ṣūfī Orders. It is a...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
The dean of the Uṣul al-Dīn (Theology) College in al-Minūfīya province, Dr. Khālid ʿAbd al-ʿĀl, said Imām al-Sayīd al-Badawī has enriched Islamic Sufism, adding that the imām had dreamt of coming to Egypt three times. “Al-Sayīd al-Badawī came to Egypt, where he was received by al-Ẓāhir Bibars, the...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
As the situation is aggravating in Israel and the Palestinian territories following the attack by Ḥamās in October and the subsequent Israeli military response in Gaza, a Palestinian university professor has raised concerns about the potential for an Israeli army invasion. Speaking to the Vatican...
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