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al-Azhar and the Storms of the Egyptian Revolution
Date of source: 12 Feb 2020
By Khayrī ʿUmar
Political changes in Egypt for the past few years have posed a challenge to al-Azhar’s ability to respond to necessary changes for political reform.  In this context, the appearance of the Grand Shaykh of al-Azhar, Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib, raises questions about how to value his political role since the...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
In Order to Fight False Teachings and Heresies.. Bishop of Maghāgha Starts a Program on Facebook
Date of source: 18 Feb 2020
By Sāra ʿAllām
Bishop Aghāthūn is among the most prominent symbols of the extreme traditionalist schools of thought in the Coptic Church.  He has persisted in confronting Pope Tawāḍrūs II’s reformist orientation specifically regarding the issue of relations between other Christian denominations and has continued...
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The Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center Hosts 150 Imāms and Pastors as part of “Because I am a Father” Activities.. Pictures
Date of source: 18 Feb 2020
By Sāmiḥ Salām‎
Bishop Ermia [Irmiyā], General Bishop and Chairman of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center, confirmed that the training program comes as a part of periodic meetings and training programs organized by the “House of the Family” [Bayt al-ʿĀʾila] in order to strengthen the concept of real citizenship,...
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The Coptic Orthodox Church Closes out its First Conference for the Women’s Committee Raising Awareness against Violence
Date of source: 19 Feb 2020
By Sāra ʿAllām
The conference also had Pope Tawāḍrūs II participating in the conference via video conference calling as well as 9 lectures opposing violence against women. The Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church, which was held last January, had made a number of recommendations to establish a committee...
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Egyptian Efforts to Secure European Funding Stumble
Date of source: 29 Jan 2020
By No Author Mentioned
Egyptian Diplomatic sources revealed that Cairo actually welcomed a plan through direct funding from the Italian government to prepare police and African security forces to confront migration.  This plan, which lasted a year and a half, was one of the unannounced ways of security cooperation...
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The British ambassador in Cairo visits the Virgin Mary Monastery in Jabal al-Ṭayr
Date of source: 27 Feb 2020
By Nādir Shukrī
Fr. Dāwūd, the secretary of Samālūṭ Archdiocese, said that was the first visit of British ambassador to Samālūṭ. The visit came in the context of seeing the monastery of the Virgin as one of the stations of the Holy Family's journey, where the ambassador visited the ancient church, and entered the...
Reviewed by Aḥmad Badr
Translator Aḥmad Badr
Henk Glimmerveen providing a critical review of media reporting on Coptic Christians in Egypt
Date of source: 28 Apr 2020
By Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
On October 16, 2019, Henk Glimmerveen sent me an announcement regarding a documentary titled “The Valley of Salt,” to be broadcast on October 18 by the Evangelische Omroep (EO, Evangelical Broadcasting Company). The announcement reads (in translation) “As the young Egyptian filmmaker Christophe...
The Secretary-General of Dār al-Iftāʾ: Female circumcision is legally forbidden
Date of source: 7 Feb 2020
By Maged Timraz
The Secretary-General of Dār al-Iftāʾ al-Miṣriyyah added, that there are statistics released today on the Global Fatwā Index (GIF), clarifying that there is a discourse that exists in Egypt and other countries from those who seek and spread extremism, and blindly follow several texts, some of which...
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Translator Aḥmad Badr
The Coptic Orthodox Church reveals the Cabinet’s decision to legalize 70 churches
Date of source: 16 Feb 2020
By Aḥmad al-Mukhtār
According to al-Yawm al-Sābiʿ newspaper, Anṭūn said that the total Orthodox churches whose status has been legalized is approaching 70 churches in the last batch of 82 churches. Moreover the rate of legalizing churches reached 1500 churches and subsidiary buildings from all denominations. Father...
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Al-Minyā Criminal Court Sentences Those Accused of Disrobing the “Lady of al-Karam” to Ten Years in Prison in Absentia
Date of source: 11 Jan 2020
By Raimond al-Rāwi
The village of al-Karam, which is at the center of Abū Qurqāṣ, witnessed incidents of sectarian strife and attacks on a number of Coptic homes on May 20, 2016, following a rumor spread about an affair between a Muslim housewife and a married Coptic man.  Suʿād Thābit accused the ex-husband of the...
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The Full Story for Choosing the New Mufti.. Is al-Azhar clashing with Parliament?
Date of source: 24 Feb 2020
By Fādī al-Ṣāwī
According to the internal procedures of the al-Azhar Council of Senior Scholars, the Shaykh of al-Azhar calls the Council to hold a meeting at least one month before the end of his tenure as Mufti of Egypt in order to process the nomination of the new mufti.  The Council nominates three people from...
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Orthodox Church Representatives Reunite and Express their Concerns over the Patriarch of Jerusalem
Date of source: 27 Feb 2020
By Nādir Shukrī
During the meeting, participants mentioned their concerns over the Patriarch of Jerusalem facing imminent danger of schism within the Orthodox Union.  Delegations from every Orthodox Church in Jerusalem participated in the meeting with Patriarch Theophilos III [Thiyyūfīlūs], Patriarch of the Holy...
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ِAbout the Nature of the Islamic State
Date of source: 26 Feb 2020
By Bābakir Fayṣal Bābakir
Despite what Dr. ʿIssām said about the civil state and the nature of the system of power in it, Islamists didn’t settle once and for all the issue of the system of rule or its means.  And they didn’t decide on the issue of choosing a ruler or the conditions that must exist. Dr. ʿIssām claimed that...
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Egypt Carries out the Execution of Hishām ʿAshmāwī
Date of source: 4 Mar 2020
By No Author Mentioned
After the ruling, a judicial official said that the criminal court in Cairo on Monday sentenced ʿAshmāwī and 36 others to death.  They were accused of committing 54 crimes including the assassinations of police officers, the attempted assassination of the former Minister of the Interior Muḥammad...
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Minister of Endowments: Those Claiming the Closure of Mosques is Ḥarām are Enemies of the Nation
Date of source: 24 Mar 2020
By ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Muḥammad‎
Jumaʿa added that whatever was said about the Coronavirus being mentioned in the Qur’an is nonsense. The state of emergency should apply to whoever speaks about the crisis from an unqualified perspective.  The maximum penalty must be imposed on whoever uses social media to profit from crises.  The...
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Is the Coronavirus mentioned in the Qur’an in Sūrat al-Muddaththir?
Date of source: 24 Mar 2020
By Muḥammad Ṣabrī ʿAbd al-Raḥīm‎
Dr. ʿAbbās Shūmān, former vice-president of al-Azhar, said that some people are used to tying disasters and crises with the Qur’an and its verses and interpreting them as pointing to the event, its time, and place.  As happened with events of September 11th,  they connect the Qur’an to whatever is...
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Dār al-Iftāʾ: It is Permissible to Pay Alms and Zakāt to Fight the Coronavirus
Date of source: 24 Mar 2020
By Luʾay ʿAlī‎
He emphasized that all of these are acts pleasing to God [qurubāt] and necessities of which their doer is rewarded for and thus doubles his merit in the eyes of God [thawāb] whether they are among the commendable alms [al-ṣadaqāt al-mustaḥabba] or among the necessary alms [al-zakāt al-wājiba]. He...
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Egyptian Prisons Refuse to Let in Disinfectants and Sanitizers despite the Pandemic and Overcrowding
Date of source: 22 Mar 2020
By No Author Mentioned
Niʿma Hishām, wife of detained lawyer Muḥammad al-Bāqir, wrote that she had gone to prison to bring precautionary, basic necessities and some food to her husband and was surprised by the long list of banned items including all basic necessities for personal hygiene and sanitation.  The number of...
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Rights Group Condemns the Pulling of The Guardian’s License in Egypt
Date of source: 21 Mar 2020
By No Author Mentioned
The State Information Service had made a decision about the two newspapers last Tuesday after The Guardian published a report about the spread of the Coronavirus in Egypt.  The report included a study by a Canadian researcher, estimating that Egypt has 19,310 cases of Coronavirus.  The State...
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The Most Recent is the Coronavirus.. The Coptic Orthodox Church’s History in Confronting Pandemics
Date of source: 21 Mar 2020
By Māriyyān Saʿīd
After meeting this morning to discuss the latest developments regarding the spread of the novel Coronavirus Covid-19, the decision issued by the Standing Council for the Holy Synod under the authority of Pope Tawāḍrūs II came in the context of following the exceptional situation that the world is...
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