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  • Sisi appoints 3 members at Azhar's scholars authority

    Date: 2015-12-28 12:43:55 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:30 - ID:4007857

    CAIRO, Dec 28 (MENA) – President Abdel Fattah El Sisi issued a decree to appoint three members at the Council of Senior Scholars of Al Azhar. The three appointed members, who are professors at Al Azhar University, are namely Abdel Aziz Moftah, ....

  • Dar al Ifta condemns anti-Muslim attacks in French island

    Date: 2015-12-27 19:33:57 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:105 - ID:4004521

    CAIRO, Dec 27 (MENA) - The Islamophobia Monitoring Observatory at Egypt’s Dar al Ifta vehemently condemned the ransacking of a Muslim prayer hall and the burning of copies of the Quran in the French island of Corsica on Friday. such actions are ....

  • Minya University president hails Azhar's scientific, educational role

    Date: 2015-12-27 17:31:43 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:96 - ID:4004065

    MINYA, Egypt, Dec 27 (MENA) - President of the Minya University Gamal el Din Ali Abul Magd on Sunday hailed the scientific, educational roles played by Al Azhar to protect young people from extremist ideas. During a seminar hosted by the ....

  • Azhar condemns setting fire to mosque, copies of Quran burned in France's Corsica

    Date: 2015-12-27 15:26:48 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:78 - ID:4002881

    CAIRO, Dec 27 (MENA) - Al Azhar on Sunday strongly condemned an attack on a Muslim prayer hall in France's Corsica. Demonstrators ransacked a Muslim prayer hall and attempted to burn copies of the Quran on the French island of Corsica Friday, ....

  • Dar al Ifta slams terrorist groups' call for attacking Islamic countries

    Date: 2015-12-27 14:26:36 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:65 - ID:4002689

    CAIRO, Dec 27 (MENA) - The Observatory for Anomalous and Takfiri Fatwas of Dar al Ifta said the attacks on Islamic countries and accusing their leaders of blasphemy represented a malicious means used by the terrorist groups to destroy social and ....

  • Daesh violates all heavenly religions - Azhar imam

    Date: 2015-12-27 14:10:07 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:63 - ID:4002537

    CAIRO, Dec 27 (MENA) - Grand Imam of Al Azhar Ahmed el Tayyeb on Sunday said Daesh terror group violates all heavenly religions and international laws by its criminal actions. Tayyeb on Sunday received 21-year-old Yazidi Iraqi woman Nadia Murad ....

  • Pope Tawadros visits Cairo's Coptic Catholic Patriarchate on Christmas

    Date: 2015-12-25 13:01:33 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:41 - ID:3992581

    CAIRO, Dec 25 (MENA) - Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark Diocese paid a visit on Friday to the headquarters of the Coptic Catholic Patriarchate to greet Patriarch Ibrahim Ishak on Christmas. The pontiff was accompanied by a ....

  • Cairo governor takes part in Christmas celebrations

    Date: 2015-12-25 11:48:38 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:33 - ID:3992213

    CAIRO, Dec 25 (MENA) - Cairo Governor Galal Saeed took part in Christmas celebrations of the Armenian Catholic denomination and the Episcopal Church. On Friday, the governor, a presidency delegate, representatives of Al Azhar grand imam and the ....

  • Catholic, Evangelical churches hold Christmas Mass in Alex

    Date: 2015-12-25 07:05:47 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:5 - ID:3991105

    ALEXANDRIA, Dec 25 (MENA) – The Catholic and Evangelical churches held on Thursday evening the Christmas Mass amid tight security measures taken by police and army forces in Alexandria. All churches here were equipped with metal detector gates. ....

  • Copts' personal status law to see daylight soon, Pope Tawadros

    Date: 2015-12-24 06:12:18 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:3 - ID:3985449

    ALEXANDRIA, Dec 24 (MENA) - Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria stressed that the unified personal status law regulating divorce and second marriage for Egyptian Copts is almost finished and is to see daylight soon. Now, Copts in Egypt can get divorce ....

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