Date of source: Saturday, August 23, 2014
Dr. Shawqī ‘Allām, the grand muftī, stated that Dār al- Iftā is not isolated from the needs of the Egyptian people.
Date of source: Friday, November 9, 2018
Targeting Copts on their way back from the St. Samuel the Confessor Monastery last week was not only a cowardly terror attack on innocent people, but also alarm bells signalizing for the hundredth time that the terror operations of the Islamic State -or Dāʿish- are not done on the spur of the...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 23, 2018
An article in memorium of Metropolitan Bishop Bishoy (1942-2018)
Date of source: Sunday, May 13, 2012
A wrangling erupted on Saturday (May 12) between veteran journalist Farīdah al-Shūbāshī and ‘Abd al-Zāhir Mufīd, the secretary of political education at the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), during a seminar hosted by the ministry of social affairs on drama handling of issues of...
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The Near East school of Theology is an interdenominational protestant Seminary. The majority of the students in Near East School of Theology come from four Protestant denominations: Lutheran, Anglican, Presbyterian Arab and Armenian Evangelica
These denomination can be found all over the Middle...
Date of source: Monday, September 3, 2018
Dr Yusrī Hāshim, President of University of Heliopolis, spoke of the summer school for interfaith and intercultural dialogue, organised in cooperation with the Centre for Arab-West Understanding, and sponsored by the Dutch Reform Party.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 28, 2018
In July 2018 I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to spend three weeks in the Upper Egyptian village of Sarāqna. Located around 350 kilometres south of Cairo in the Asyūṭ Governorate, Sarāqna is primarily notable for being a Christian-majority village – approximately 90% of its 10,000...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Najīb Jubrā’īl, head of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights, said that the five Coptic detainees are: ‘Izat Hakīm, ‘Isá Ibrāhīm, ‘Adil Shākir, Shirīf Ramsīs, and ‘Imād Sidīq. He added that the detainees are being tortured by the Libyan Preventive Security Unit and have to be released immediately. ...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 13, 2018
German organization Misereor decided not to continue support for the Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Translation (CIDT) after 1 July 2019 for reasons of policy change. CIDT has been supporting the Center for Arab-West Understanding in turn.
Misereor has been good for around 35% of their...
Date of source: Monday, February 19, 2018
The Coptic language is the last development stage of the spoken Egyptian language. Scholars believe that the Coptic language directly derives from the late Egyptian language, which was spoken in the 16th century.