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Date of source: 13 Dec 2025
A religious row has resurfaced once again after journalist and writer Ibrāhīm ʿĪsa sparked widespread arguments with remarks on the concept of "the religion acceptable to God" and his interpretation of verses from Surat (Chapter) Al ʿImrān.
Many considered his approach to be a deviation from the...
Reviewed by ʿAmr al-Misrī
Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 12 Dec 2025
Renowned journalist and writer Ibrāhīm ʿĪsa spoke about the concept of "the religion acceptable to God" according to the Qur’ānic texts, saying that the religion acceptable to God is Islam as stated in the Holy Qur’ān and all heavenly messages were sent from God, but their final form in the...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 8 Dec 2025
Banque Misr offers a diverse range of equity investment funds that provide flexible solutions for investors with varying levels of risk, with options compliant with the principles of the Islamic Sharīʿa (law).
The funds are managed by CI Capital Asset Management, and the program includes a limited-...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 2 Dec 2025
As part of al-Azhar’s efforts to support stability of Egyptian families, al-Azhar Fatwa Global Center and the National Council for Women wrapped up a series of meetings and awareness-raising seminars in 19 governorates in November 2025 as part of the NCW’s Family Guidance and Balanced Upbringing...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 7 Dec 2025
Al-Azhar Electronic Fatwa Center stated that zakāt is one of the pillars of Islam, the right of God Almighty in a person’s wealth, and a means of purifying it. God the Almighty says in the Holy Qurʾān: "Take charity from their wealth to purify them and sanctify them with it" (9:103), and "And in...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 12 Dec 2025
Writer and thinker Dr. ʿĀdil Nuʿmān stressed the need to redefine major religious concepts in line with the profound transformations the world is witnessing, noting that terms such as Sharīʿa, kāfir (infidel), jihād and takfīr are no longer applicable with the same historical concepts that arose in...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 7 Dec 2025
The Education and Students Sector at ʿAyn Shams University is organizing the 15th Daʿwa Week under the title "Youths between the Purposes of Religion and Attempts at Westernization," with the participation of a select group of professors and Al-Azhar scholars specializing in this field on December...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 10 Dec 2025
The media center of the Coptic Orthodox Church announced rules for attending the Coptic Christmas mass scheduled for January 6, 2026, at the Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ in the New Administrative Capital.
The mass will be led by Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Patriarch of...
Reviewed by ʿAmr al-Misrī
Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 15 Dec 2025
Date of source: 15 Dec 2025
In December 2024, Egypt adopted a new domestic asylum law (Law No. 164 of 2024), establishing a national committee to manage refugee affairs and decide on asylum requests on a case-by-case basis within specific timeframes, under full judicial oversight. The law transfers responsibility for refugee...
Date of source: 15 Dec 2025
Date of source: 14 Dec 2025
Date of source: 2 Dec 2025
Bishop ʿAṭā Allāh Ḥannā, Archbishop of Sabasṭīya, called on all members of the parish to pray for the Church, the Palestinian people, Jerusalem, and its holy sites on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of his election to the episcopal rank.
In a special statement to "Milḥ al-Arḍ" on this occasion...
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Translator Ḥabība al-Janaynī
Date of source: 14 Nov 2025
Lebanon is preparing to receive Pope Leo XIV, who will arrive in Beirut on Sunday afternoon and depart on Tuesday, December 2. His visit comes at a moment of exceptional circumstances for the country, and it will be his first trip outside the Vatican. Before arriving in Lebanon, he made a stop in...
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Translator Ḥabība al-Janaynī
Date of source: 6 Dec 2025
Prof. Dr. Muḥammad al-Ḍuwaynī, the deputy of al-Azhar, participated in the launch of the 32nd edition of the Global Qur’ān Competition organized by the Egyptian Ministry of Awqāf, held at Miṣr al-Kabīr mosque in the New Administrative Capital. The event was attended by Prof. Dr. ʾUsāma al-Azharī,...
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Translator Ḥabība al-Janaynī
Date of source: 3 Dec 2025
Coinciding with the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, al-Azhar Institutes Sector organized extensive awareness-raising activities, in alignment with its strategic educational plan and its programs that aim at supporting and empowering students with disabilities and enhancing their...
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Translator Ḥabība al-Janaynī
Date of source: 5 Dec 2025
After two depressing Christmas seasons, the city of Bethlehem (Bayt Laḥm), where Jesus Christ was born, is preparing to celebrate once again. The Palestinian city of Bethlehem, a symbol of hope for Christians around the world, will light its Christmas tree in al-Mahd Square on Saturday, 6 December...
Reviewed by Minna al-Maʿāz
Translator Minna al-Maʿāz
Date of source: 7 Dec 2025
Qatari Foreign Minister Muḥammad al-Khalīfī said on Sunday that Qatar didn't change its stance toward the Syrian people for the past 14 years.
During a dialogue session at the Doha Forum, he added that several Qatari institutions headed to Syria and began working in arrangement with the government...
Reviewed by Minna al-Maʿāz
Translator Minna al-Maʿāz
Date of source: 7 Dec 2025
U.S. envoy Tom Barrack stated that all Western decisions regarding the Middle East since the Sykes–Picot Agreement have been wrong.
During his participation in "Doha Forum" sessions, he pointed out that U.S. President Donald Trump made his decisions regarding Syria after a deep study and decided to...
Reviewed by Minna al-Maʿāz
Translator Minna al-Maʿāz
Date of source: 7 Dec 2025
Their Eminences Bishop Ilarion, Bishop of al-Buḥayrah and Supervisor of the Churches of al-Sadāt City, and Bishop Mina, Bishop of Burj al-ʿArab and al-ʿĀmiriyyah, laid the foundation stone for the Church of the Three Knights, "Martyrs Saint George, Saint Mina and Abī Sayfayn," in the 15th district...
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Translator Minna al-Maʿāz
Date of source: 26 Nov 2025
Dār al-Iftā’ said that the Islamic Sharīʿa rejects family violence in all its forms, asserting that its impermissibility is even harsher if it is practiced against females within the family, including wives.
Dār al-Iftā’ stated that the Islamic Sharīʿa has built wives’ relationships with their...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 29 Nov 2025
Amidst anticipation and waiting, Lebanese streets are filled with Vatican flags beside the Lebanese flag, with images of Pope Leo XIV surrounded by the word "peace."
The Pope's visit does not come at a random moment but at a critical turning point marked by tensions caused by almost-daily Israeli...
Reviewed by Minna al-Maʿāz
Translator Minna al-Maʿāz
Date of source: 22 Nov 2025
A strategic analysis has uncovered the underlying objectives behind the U.S. narrative of "persecution of Christians" in Nigeria. It argues that this claim is part of a coordinated campaign targeting specific religious groups, despite the absence of supporting evidence or official statistics....
Reviewed by Ḥabība al-Janaynī
Translator Ḥabība al-Janaynī
Pope Tawāḍrūs clarifies reasons for missing the Council of Nicaea anniversary celebrations in Turkey
Date of source: 28 Nov 2025
Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark revealed that he would not attend the celebrations marking 1700 years since the convening of the Council of Nicaea, held in Turkey today, Friday, (November 28), in the presence of Pope Leo XIV of the Roman Catholic...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 29 Nov 2025
In a historical scene marked by profound spirituality and longing for unity, church leaders and representatives of various Christian communities gathered in the Turkish city of Iznik (ancient Nicaea) to commemorate the 1700th anniversary of the convening of the First Ecumenical Council, an event...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 29 Nov 2025
The Zakāt & Charities Fund, under the supervision of Grand Imām of al-Azhar Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, Chairman of the Fund’s Board of Trustees, announced delivering all humanitarian aid within the first batch of the 12th relief convoy that reached the Gaza Strip, hit by a wave of extreme cold, via...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 29 Nov 2025
The Muslim Council of Elders, under the chairmanship of Grand Imām of al-Azhar Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, reiterated its "unquestionable solidarity" with the Palestinian people, who have endured suffering for over seven decades.
It called on the international community to take urgent and decisive steps...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 25 Nov 2025
The Muslim Council of Elders, under Grand Imām of al-Azhar Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, hailed the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for its compassionate endeavor to prepare 10 million meals in support of the people in Gaza—a gesture poised to significantly alleviate the humanitarian anguish endured by civilians...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 25 Nov 2025
The Muslim Council of Elders, under Grand Imām of al-Azhar Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, stressed that the protection of women against all forms of violence—physical, psychological, verbal and digital—is a sacred religious, moral and humanitarian obligation.
The Council said that there is an urgent need to...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 23 Nov 2025
The Muslim Council of Elders, under Grand Imām of al-Azhar Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, vehemently condemned the "horrific" kidnapping operation that targeted the St. Mary's Catholic School in northwestern Nigeria.
According to the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), the incident resulted in the...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 24 Nov 2025
After months of banning, the Administrative Judiciary Court rejected a lawsuit calling for the prohibition of the screening of the movie al-Mulḥid (The Atheist) by director Muḥammad Jamāl al-ʿAdl on the grounds that the film had already obtained approval from the Central Authority for the...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 28 Nov 2025
Pope Leo XIV of the Roman Catholic Church said the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea is a dear one that should bring all to ask themselves, "Who is Jesus for us?"
The pontiff made the remarks in a speech he delivered on the occasion at the archeological excavation site of the old Church...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 23 Nov 2025
Shaykh Ayman ʿAbd al-Ghannī, the Head of the Institutes Sector, said that al-Azhar was never just an educational institution but a beacon of thought, a guardian of identity, and an inspiration for the nation in its pursuit of light and knowledge.
During his speech at the educational seminar for the...
Reviewed by Minna al-Maʿāz
Translator Minna al-Maʿāz
Date of source: 30 Nov 2025
Antoine A. Ḥabīb, president of the Tripoli and Mina Development Association, welcomed the visit of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV to Lebanon, considering it as a historic milestone carrying within it a breath of peace and hope for a nation burdened by crises whose people’s hearts still carry the lights...
Reviewed by Minna al-Maʿāz
Translator Minna al-Maʿāz
Date of source: 30 Nov 2025
Date of source: 14 Nov 2025
After a series of public insults directed at Evangelicals in Jordan, describing their marriages as "adulterous," claiming that Christ is not among them, and directly hinting at certain Evangelical churches by name, it became necessary to move the response from a level of emotional reaction to the...
Reviewed by Ḥabība al-Janaynī
Translator Ḥabība al-Janaynī
Date of source: 27 Nov 2025
Date of source: 21 Nov 2025
Palestinian Christian figures welcomed the release of the "Kairos Palestine II" document, which was launched recently amid the war on Gaza, affirming that it represents a renewal of the Palestinian Church’s message and a clear call to confront genocide and expose the deterioration of human values...
Reviewed by Minna al-Maʿāz
Translator Minna al-Maʿāz
Date of source: 21 Nov 2025
Dr. Usāma al-Azharī, Minister of the Awqāf, said that Dr. Naẓīr ʿAyyād the Grand Muftī of Egypt, is fully deserving of his position and that God has enabled him to serve religion, knowledge and the nation, and that all the resources of the Ministry of Awqāf are at the service of Dār al-Iftāʾ, which...
Reviewed by Minna al-Maʿāz
Translator Minna al-Maʿāz
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Date of source: Monday, May 2, 2011
By: AINA
Date of source: Saturday, February 9, 2013
By: AFP
YouTube, a subsidiary of US Internet giant Google, has been blocked in Pakistan since December for refusing to heed Islamabad’s call to remove the same video.—File Photo
Date of source: Saturday, February 9, 2013
By: AP
CAIRO (AP) — Watching the events in Tunisia, where a leading anti-Islamist politician was shot to death this past week, members of Egypt's liberal opposition are fearfully asking: Could it happen here too?
Date of source: Tuesday, February 5, 2013
By: Christian Post
Date of source: Wednesday, January 9, 2013
By: FaithWorld
Many Egyptian viewers were horrified when preacher Hisham el-Ashry recently popped up on primetime television to say women must cover up for their own protection and advocated the introduction of religious police.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 6, 2013
By: Catholic Culture
The head of the Coptic Orthodox Church has criticized Egypt’s new constitution, which declares that “principles of Islamic Sharia are the principal source of legislation.”
Date of source: Thursday, February 7, 2013
By: Reuters
Reuters) - To his critics, Ahmed Shafik is a typical autocrat consigned to history's dustbin by the Arab Spring - a military man turned politician who ended his career amid corruption allegations and fled to the Gulf.
Date of source: Thursday, February 7, 2013
By: Christian Today
The North Cairo Criminal Court sentenced two Copts, Maikel Adel Naguib Farag and Maikel Mossad Shaker, to three years imprisonment on 4 February for stealing a machine gun from the armed forces during the violence of 9 October 2011, when the Egyptian military attacked a peaceful civil rights demo
Date of source: Wednesday, February 5, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
“I did not expect the idea to be disseminated this way all over Egypt in just six days.” With this
statement a founder of the Black Bloc in Egypt started his conversation with me, showing his surprise
at how the idea was well received by youth groups.
Date of source: Monday, February 4, 2013
By: INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP
It is difficult to know which is most dangerous: the serious
uptick in street violence; President Morsi’s and the Muslim
Brotherhood’s serial inability to reach out to the rest of the
political class inclusively; or the opposition clinging to the hope
Date of source: Monday, February 4, 2013
By: FT.com
Egyptians defied efforts by President Mohamed Morsi to restore order around the country on Monday as demonstrators and security forces clashed for the fifth consecutive day and tension mounted between the government and its opposition rivals.
Date of source: Monday, January 28, 2013
By: The Guardian
Campaigners in Egypt say at least 25 women have been assaulted as state of emergency is declared in three provinces
Date of source: Friday, February 1, 2013
By: BBC News
he Black Bloc, a new Egyptian anarchist group, made its first appearance last week, on the eve of the second anniversary of the 25 January 2011 revolution. With a declared aim of fighting the Muslim Brotherhood, it has drawn a lot of mainstream criticism.
Date of source: Saturday, February 2, 2013
By: NYTimes.com
Egyptian activists released a brutally frank video on Friday, using images recorded during the mass sexual assault of a woman last week in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to urge volunteers to join their campaign against attacks during demonstrations.
Date of source: Saturday, February 2, 2013
By: Toronto Star”.pdf
LUXOR, EGYPT—Police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds
of Muslim protesters outside a church in southern Egypt
Friday. The demonstrators were demanding an investigation
into allegations that a Christian man sexually assaulted a
Date of source: Saturday, February 2, 2013
By: The Washington Post
CAIRO — Egypt’s opposition movement shifted its strategy Wednesday, calling for a national dialogue to resolve the country’s ongoing political crisis days after it had rejected an almost identical invitation from embattled President Mohamed Morsi.
Date of source: Saturday, February 2, 2013
By: CSMonitor.com
Five days of protests in Egypt, with dozens of people killed and entire cities in turmoil, have revealed a whopping deficit of public trust in the
Date of source: Monday, February 18, 2013
By: bariatwan
The Egyptian Prosecutor General's approval of an arrest warrant for fundamentalist preacher Ahmed Mohammed "Abu Islam" Abdallah — on charges of insulting religion — represent a crucial development in the history of Egyptian justice, by putting an end to the current media free-for-all in the count
Date of source: Tuesday, March 19, 2013
By: Al-Monitor
Since the establishment of Egypt’s first republic in 1952, the country’s foreign policy has never
been clearly sectarian, with neither a Sunni nor Shiite identity taking precedence. Following the
Date of source: Wednesday, February 26, 2014
By: uscirf
I want to thank the Members of the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa for
holding this hearing, “Demonstrations in Tahrir Square: Two Years Later, What Has
Changed?” and for inviting me to testify here today on behalf of the U.S. Commission on
Date of source: Tuesday, February 4, 2014
By: americanthinker
Muslim persecution of Christians is the "Achilles heel" of the global Islamic movement's image -- the surest way of exposing its supremacist and intolerant elements, and one of the main reasons the major media and establishment rarely report or address it.
Date of source: Friday, February 7, 2014
By: meforum
After my recent articles documenting how the U.S.
Date of source: Friday, February 7, 2014
By: forbes
Before the 2012 Egyptian presidential elections, dozens of Muslim Brotherhood members were dispatched to the US and Europe. They presented a picture that interlocutors could identify with. They were young, western-educated and articulate.
Date of source: Sunday, February 2, 2014
By: Hoover Institution
The fall of the Mubarak regime was no blessing for this small Christian sect.
Date of source: Saturday, February 8, 2014
By: reuters
(Reuters) - Egyptian leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi announced on Saturday he would be running for the presidency in a forthcoming election, enlivening a race that army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is widely expected to win.
Date of source: Sunday, February 9, 2014
By: worldreview
EGYPT is struggling with an internal and violent political and social conflict which will continue to undermine domestic stability.
Date of source: Friday, February 7, 2014
By: The Arabist
Jehane Noujaim's documentary The Square has been short-listed for the Oscar, is now available on Netflix, and recently won her an Directors' Guild Award. But it has still not been released or even screened at a festival here.
Date of source: Thursday, February 13, 2014
By: Reuters
(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday threw his weight behind a presidential bid by Egyptian Army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, voicing hope that ties would strengthen after the election.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 19, 2014
By: BBC News
Britons are being advised to avoid the Egyptian region of South Sinai - except the holiday resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
The Foreign Office said British nationals should avoid "all but essential travel" to the region.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 11, 2014
By: CNN
Editor's note: H.A. Hellyer is a non-resident fellow in Foreign Policy at the Washington DC-based think tank Brookings Institution and the Royal United Services Institution in London.
Date of source: Friday, November 15, 2013
By: securityobserver
This article seeks to contrast Egypt’s leadership role in the Middle East after the Second World War with the one Turkey is currently aiming for, while emphasizing the fundamental changes that occurred in Middle East countries during the second half of the 20th century.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 4, 2014
By: atlanticcouncil
A look at Tahrir Square on January 25 during the 2011 uprising's third anniversary would leave one wondering where all the younger protesters who led the movement have gone.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 28, 2014
By: Atlantic Council
The terms “banned” and “terrorist” are once again affixed to mention of the Muslim Brotherhood in nearly all Egyptian media.
Date of source: Friday, January 24, 2014
By: NYTimes.com
CAIRO — Three years after the start of its revolt for democracy, the capital was shaken Friday by four deadly bombings, in the clearest sign yet that Egypt is entering a prolonged and violent struggle between the military-backed government and a growing Islamist insurgency.
Date of source: Sunday, February 2, 2014
By: vimeo
debalie.nl/agenda/programma/hrw%3a-reporting-change-in-egypt/e_9420509/p_11170885
Date of source: Sunday, February 9, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
In a somewhat surprising turn of events in Cairo, Hamdeen Sabahi, head of the Popular Current (PC), announced on Feb. 9 his bid to run for the presidency.
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.