Religion

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  • Azhar condemns terrorist attack on Mali hotel

    Date: 2015-11-21 09:25:15 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:20 - ID:3772090

    CAIRO, Nov 21 (MENA) - Egypt's Al Azhar has strongly condemned the terrorist attack on a hotel in Mali that left dozens dead. A number of gunmen belonging to the Al Mourabitoun group attacked the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako Friday night and ....

  • Daesh terrorist group distorts holy texts: Mufti to Belgian paper Le Soir

    Date: 2015-11-20 14:42:06 GMT - Belgium - Religion - SN:64 - ID:3769361

    BRUSSELS, Nov 20 (MENA) – Egypt's Mufti Shawqi Allam has said that Daesh terrorist group distorts holy texts of Islam. Allam made the remarks in an interview with the Belgian newspaper, Le Soir, out Friday. In the interview, the Egyptian Mufti ....

  • Global-PRNewswire(4):The WORD Network Is Serious About Sirius

    Date: 2015-11-19 19:17:22 GMT - USA - Religion - SN:97 - ID:3765866

    DETROIT, Nov. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/MENA/ -- The WORD Network, the largest African American religious network in the world, has requested a meeting with Sirius CEO Jim Meyer to discuss carriage of The WORD Network for several months. The WORD ....

  • Paris attacks ignite anti-Muslim sentiments in West – fatwa body

    Date: 2015-11-19 14:40:39 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:74 - ID:3763534

    CAIRO, Nov 19 (MENA) – The terror operations staged recently in Paris by Daesh caused the emergence of dangerous anti-Islam waves in the West and helped far-right members win more supporters in Europe, said the fatwa monitoring observatory at Dar al ....

  • Mufti meets Kuwaiti justice minister

    Date: 2015-11-19 14:24:30 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:67 - ID:3763118

    CAIRO, Nov 19 (MENA) – Egypt's Mufti Shawqi Allam received visiting Kuwaiti Justice Minister Yacoub al Sanea and Kuwaiti Ambassador in Cairo Salem al Zamanan on Thursday. The mufti familiarized the Kuwaiti delegation with Dar al Ifta's different ....

  • US religious freedom ambassador in Egypt

    Date: 2015-11-18 16:07:55 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:107 - ID:3757634

    CAIRO, Nov 18 (MENA) - David Saperstein, US Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedoms, arrived in Cairo on Wednesday for talks with officials, religious leaders and public figures on inter-faith tolerance. Both the US and Egypt ....

  • Dar al-Iftaa launches anti-Islamophobia initiative

    Date: 2015-11-18 10:32:52 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:40 - ID:3754437

    CAIRO, Nov 18 (MENA) - Dar al Iftaa launched Wednesday a global initiative for combating Islamophobia to expound the upright teachings of Islam. During a press conference on Wednesday, Egypt's Grand Mufti Shawky Allam said the initiative came in ....

  • Pope Tawadros marks 3 years as church head

    Date: 2015-11-18 07:59:35 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:12 - ID:3753217

    CAIRO, Nov 18 (MENA) – The Coptic Orthodox Church clebrates Wednesday the third anniversary of the installation of Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark Diocese. Pope Tawadros II succeeded longtime-serving Pope Shenouda III, ....

  • Azhar rejects Western reference to Daesh as "Islamic State"

    Date: 2015-11-17 14:52:45 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:122 - ID:3749965

    CAIRO, Nov 17 (MENA) - Undersecretary of Al Azhar Dr Abbas Shuman has rejected the Western media reference to Daesh as the "Islamic State" group. This is a wrong resemblance, Shuman said in an interview with the Swiss TV, stressing that Daesh is ....

  • Egypt's Mufti urges respecting presence of Muslims in Europe

    Date: 2015-11-17 14:41:22 GMT - Egypt - Religion - SN:119 - ID:3749969

    CAIRO, Nov 17 (MENA) - Egypt's Mufti Shawqi Allam on Tuesday called on members of the European Parliament and European Commission, as well as the ambassadors of the European Union in Cairo to respect the presence of Muslims in Europe which he ....

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