Religion

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  • Church spokesman says St. Macarius monk defrocked for monastic reasons

    Date: 2018-08-05 22:53:07 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:90 - ID:7520392

    CAIRO, Aug 5 (MENA) - Spokesman for the Coptic Orthodox Church Polis Halim said Sunday a decision by the Holy Synod's Committee for Monasticism and Monastery Affairs on defrocking monk Isaiah el Makari at Saint Macarius Monastery was taken for ....

  • Pope Tawadros meets Italian FM

    Date: 2018-08-05 19:57:38 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:79 - ID:7520252

    CAIRO, Aug 5 (MENA) - Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark Diocese received on Sunday Italian Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi and his accompanying delegation at Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo. Pope ....

  • Egypt eases travel procedures for Palestinian pilgrims - official

    Date: 2018-08-05 18:37:56 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:72 - ID:7520178

    CAIRO, Aug 5 (MENA) – Egypt spared no effort to ease traveling procedures for the Palestinian pilgrims, head of the Palestinian hajj mission said Sunday. Speaking to MENA, Farid Abdel Rahman described the Egyptian measures as easy, adding that the ....

  • Coptic Orthodox Church defrocks monk of priesthood

    Date: 2018-08-05 17:12:18 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:66 - ID:7519945

    CAIRO, Aug 5 (MENA) - The Holy Synod’s Committee for Monasticism and Monastery Affairs decided Sunday to defrock monk Isaiah el Makari in Saint Macarius Monastery of priesthood. Known also as Abu Makar, the monastery is located in the desert of ....

  • Gomaa: Official hajj mission aimed at offering services to pilgrims

    Date: 2018-08-05 14:54:36 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:47 - ID:7519559

    CAIRO, Aug 5 (MENA) - Minister of Awqaf Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa said Sunday the aim of all official missions of Hajj (pilgrimage) is to offer services to pilgrims and highlight the upright image of Islam. The minister's statements came in a press ....

  • Awqaf min.: Preparations going on to form board of trustees of Awqaf training academy

    Date: 2018-08-05 13:18:26 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:28 - ID:7519423

    CAIRO, August 5 (MENA) - Awqaf (Endowments) Minister Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa said that preparations are going on for forming the board of trustees of an Awqaf academy for training and innovation that is being established in the 6th of October ....

  • Afghanistan still most liable to terrorist attacks - Takfiri observatory

    Date: 2018-08-05 12:18:51 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:25 - ID:7519442

    CAIRO, Aug 5 (MENA) - The Observatory for Anomalous and Takfiri Fatwas of Dar al Iftaa said Afghanistan is still at the top of countries liable to terrorist operations in accordance with the weekly terrorist index. From the last week of July to ....

  • Gomaa urges scholars, writers to expose terrorists' wrong concepts

    Date: 2018-08-03 10:15:15 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:14 - ID:7516842

    CAIRO, Aug 3 (MENA) – Minister of Awqaf Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa called on scholars, writers and intellectuals to exert the utmost efforts in order to expose the misleading concepts of terrorist groups and their attempts to spread rumors ....

  • Fatwa Observatory: Daesh now less popular than before, working to regain diminishing lustre via terror strikes

    Date: 2018-08-02 14:46:57 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:52 - ID:7516004

    CAIRO, Aug 2 (MENA) – Egypt's Dar El Iftaa's Takfiri Fatwa Observatory asserted that Daesh terrorist group is now less popular than before and that it is working very hard to regain its diminishing lustre via carrying out terrorist ....

  • Adventist top leader meets PM, hails religious freedoms in Egypt

    Date: 2018-07-31 20:13:29 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:63 - ID:7513366

    CAIRO, July 31 (MENA) - Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli on Tuesday received Pastor Ted Wilson, the President of the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. During the meeting, Wilson hailed the climate of religious freedom and ....

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