Date of source: Monday, March 23, 2020
Humanity is the enemy of what it does not know, and ignorance is the father of evil. Does Islam call for the killing of people and does Christianity welcome the drinking of alcohol? Seven out of every ten non-Muslims will answer the first question with a yes, and a similar percentage of non-...
Date of source: Sunday, March 22, 2020
None of those calling for renewal and modernization would have ever dreamed of a day when Friday prayer would be suspended as has happened in a number of Arab and Islamic countries. It had been announced from Kuwait to Syria that all group prayer would be suspended and that mosques would only do...
Date of source: Friday, April 10, 2020
The Ministry of Endowments [al-Awqāf] confirmed that a video of Muṣṭafā al-ʿAdawī giving a Friday sermon [khutba] at one of the mosques today was fake.
Date of source: Saturday, December 12, 2020
Public Prosecution issued a decision regarding the attack on three Coptic shops in al-Wardiyān, Alexandria, which resulted in the death of Ramsīs Būlus Hirmīnā (47 years old) and the stabbing of his brother ʿĀdil Būlus Hirmīnā (60 years old). Tāriq Fawzī Shinūda and his clothing store were also...
Date of source: Friday, April 10, 2020
Dr. Muḥammad Mukhtār Jumaʿa, minister of Endowments [al-Awqāf], decided to give out bonuses of 15,000 Egyptian pounds to every bureau for their extraordinary efforts:
(1) For big bureaus with a larger number of imāms, mosques, and workers at the Ministry of Endowments, 1,500 Egyptian pounds...
Date of source: Friday, December 11, 2020
Members of the Egyptian House of Representatives and Senate expressed their condolences to Bishop Ilarion [Iylāriyūn], general bishop of the churches of West Alexandria, for the death of Ramsīs Būlus Hirmīnā. a Copt who was the victim of a hate crime that took place in al-Wardiyān, Alexandria. The...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Shaykh Jābir Ṭāyiʿ, head of the religious sector at the Ministry of Endowments [al-Awqāf], refused to have an interview with Aljazeera [al-Jazīra] to respond to its allegations of corruption within the endowment affairs management.
Date of source: Monday, November 30, 2020
Joint investigations into the murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni between Egypt and Italy, which have been going on for over four years, have temporarily come to a halt.
Regeni was a graduate student at the University of Cambridge, conducting doctoral research in Cairo. He then disappeared,...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Dr. Nīvīn al-Qabbāj, minister of social solidarity, said that the 2019 law for regulating NGOs resembles some of the best laws for NGO work around the world.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 8, 2020
The Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) has launched a campaign to write about human rights violations women experience in prison. The campaign called “They are in Prison” lasts from December 6 to December 8.