Date of source: Saturday, September 26, 2020
About 1,574,000 Muslims (3% of the Italian population) are living in Italy, the majority of which of foreign origin. They constitute 29,2% of the migrant community and only 30% are European Muslims (from Albania, Moldavia, Kosovo), whereas 52,7% are from Africa (37,8% from North Africa).[1] The...
Date of source: Monday, June 22, 2020
Dutch journalist and Arabist Eildert Mulder is deeply impressed by the book Ihya ‘Ulum al-Din’ [Iḥyā’ ‘Ulūm al-Dīn] by the medieval Islamic scholar Abu Hamid al-Ghazali [Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī] (c. 1058 – 19 December 1111), parts of which have great value for those who wish to understand human...
Date of source: Monday, June 22, 2020
Dina Bouchkouch, a Muslim Moroccan- French student, interned twice at the Center for Arab-West Understanding, once in 2017 and again in 2019. In 2017 Dina came to know Egyptian Christianity. She wrote about Saint Simon the Tanner’s Monastery and went with Chinese intern Shangyun Shen to Maghagha,...
Date of source: Monday, June 22, 2020
Former French-Moroccan CAWU intern Dina Bouchkouch spoke with students at the webinar of June 22-24, 2020, about her personal experiences with interfaith/intercultural dialogue and why CAWU has been so important to her own personal development. This text was recorded and edited by the different...
Date of source: Monday, July 8, 2019
An interview/lecture from Richard Gauvain regarding the impact of Salafism in Egypt.
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The paper aims at presenting the religious education at the German School in Cairo (DEO) as one of the very few examples of schools offering interreligious education in Egypt. In order to give the cooperative religious education at DEO a fair examination,
Date of source: Sunday, May 14, 2023
Pope Tawāḍrūs II began his pastoral visit to the dioceses of Turin and Rome with a prayer on the eve of the fourth Sunday of Eastertide in the Basilica of St. John the Lateran in Rome.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 21, 2023
The Deputy Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Muḥammad al-Ḍūwaynī, spoke of the important role played by al-Azhar in endorsing the values of peace and fraternity, during a recent meeting with a Dutch delegation. Whilst speaking to the Dutch Secretary-General of the Foreign Ministry, Paul Huijts, Dr....
Date of source: Saturday, March 18, 2023
As the Russo-Ukrainian war enters its second year, it is evident that the conflict has had widespread repercussions internationally. Putin rebuilt Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union through harnessing Slavic Russian manpower, reinstating the strong relationship between religion and...
Date of source: Sunday, December 18, 2022
Bishop Pāchūmīūs returns to Egypt after undergoing a heart surgery operation in London. He was accompanied by his private secretary, Fr. Tādros of Alexandria, and the
diocese had previously issued a statement in which it reassured the people of the Church that Bishop Pāchūmīūs was in good health...