Date of source: Thursday, December 15, 2022
Dr. Māyā Morsī, President of the National Council for Women, met with Fr. Rabān Phīllips ʿIssā, a priest of the Syriac Church, to learn about the activities of the Council concerning women's empowerment and to discuss opportunities for the Church and the Council to cooperate with one another.
Date of source: Saturday, August 6, 2022
This year we celebrate the bicentenary of Champollion decoding the Rosetta Stone. The key to his success was the Coptic language, the final descendant of the Ancient Egyptian language.
Date of source: Sunday, August 14, 2022
The National Council for Women (NCW) in cooperation with the UNFPA open new four Safe Women’s clinics at the Minyā, Banī Suwayf, Banhā and 6th of October University Hospitals.
Date of source: Friday, July 29, 2022
The Coptic Museum is organizing a number of lectures on Sunday, July 31 and Tuesday, August 2, entitled "Means of Lighting in Coptic Art and Antiquities".
Date of source: Thursday, October 21, 2021
The Islamic Research Academy launched the first female advocacy convoy of al-Azhar preachers to the Red Sea governorate. Female preachers from various governorates of the Republic participated, under the directives of the Grand Imam, Prof Dr Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib , to advocate the role of female...
Date of source: Saturday, July 24, 2021
On Saturday 24 July, the religious sector of the Ministry of Awqāf issued a strongly worded statement warning imams in all governorates not to allow unlicensed preachers to teach from mosque’s pulpits. Such an incidence would be punished with a salary deduction, bearing in mind that the penalty may...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 6, 2021
The King ʿAbd Allāh bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz’s International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID) organized a workshop in collaboration with the European Network for Dialogue, a platform created three years ago in partnership with the KAICIID. The workshop, which took place on...
Date of source: Friday, July 16, 2021
Dr. Shawkī ʿAllām, the Mufti of the Arab Republic of Egypt, resolved the controversy over the travel of women to perform the ḥajj without a muḥarram. He stressed that the sharīʿa law in the Quran and Sunnah does not discriminate between men and women; “Pilgrimage to the House is a duty owed to...
Date of source: Thursday, February 11, 2021
Dr. Māyā Mūrsī, president of the National Council for Women (NCW), participated in the opening of the 40th session of the Arab Women Committee. The session, entitled “The Social Affairs Sector – Women, Family, and Children”, was headed by the Republic of Djibouti and organized by the Arab League....
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 2021
Māya Mursī, the President of the National Council for Women (NCW), expressed her happiness at seeing the first photo of Egyptian female judges at the Public Prosecution.