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Date of source: Saturday, February 3, 2018
Archbishop ʿAṭā Allāh Ḥannā, President of the Greek Orthodox Bishops of Sabastiyya in Jerusalem rejects the imposition of oppressive taxes by the Israeli occuption authorities on church institutions in Jerusalem and on any other international institutions.
Date of source: Monday, December 25, 2006
The monopolized religious authority is an echo of the political monopolized authority and the
result of hard financial conditions and regressing social and educational values.
Date of source: Friday, November 17, 2006
The controversial draft law
banning demonstrations inside mosques, recently
submitted by the Ministry of Endowments to the Council of
State, was the main focus of al-Ahrām’s recent
interview with Dr. Mahmūd
Hamdī Zaqzūq, the minister of endowments.
Date of source: Friday, June 30, 2006
The author focuses on vows and donations for Egyptian churches, how the
financial yield from these funds is spent and the way these funds are managed.
Date of source: Sunday, June 11, 2006
Father Marqus
‘Azīz has discovered that there is someone claiming to be Monk Mitiās Nasr
in order to
commit fraud.
Date of source: Saturday, June 3, 2006
The article reports on the lawsuit of Shaykh
‘Abd al-Sabour al-
Kāshif who is accused of despising Islamic faith and cherishing heretical
ideologies.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Information was collected about an extremist group that prompts religious strife in
Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, May 15, 2006
Money may push many to commit illegal acts. Here the author explains how many churches were robbed by certain people who managed to deceive Christian religious men, making use of the “religious bond”.
Date of source: Friday, April 7, 2006
The author asserts that there is a
difference between religiosity and true faith, noting that Egyptian society has a large degree of religiosity but
is suffering from a lack of true faith.
Date of source: Saturday, March 2, 2002 to Friday, March 8, 2002
Muslim and Christian clergymen stress that the activity of collecting donations for building mosques and churches offends the creed and deforms its sacredness, especially because some of the people who collect such donations took up this activity as their job to make money without being questioned...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Retired actresses are planning to work for Islamic satellite channels, and a number of shops are refusing to sell tight and revealing clothing just to make profit.
Date of source: Saturday, November 19, 2005
The article discusses the phenomenon of business in the name of Islam and cites prominent Muslim scholar, Dr. Ahmad ‘Umar Hāshim’s theological arguments on the matter.
Date of source: Sunday, October 16, 2005
Māhir Hassan claims that Khālid al-Jindī, the well-known dā‘iya, is making huge sums of money from the private fatwa business.
Date of source: Saturday, November 4, 2000
Through interviewing Omar Bakri, the leader of Al-Muhagerin [immigrants] group, the author recounts how Adel Abdel Al-Mageed, an Egyptian lawyer who was involved with Usama Bin Laden, was arrested. He also discussed the reasons behind his trial.
Date of source: Saturday, April 8, 2000 to Friday, April 14, 2000
"Extremism Association" changes according to the circumstances. Extremism that creates terrorism cannot be destroyed from the first time because it aims at destroying the Egyptian society. This association wants the Egyptian people to go back to the stone age. This association gained strength from...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 25, 2000
In spite of the declarations, which stated that everything returned to normal, the streets of Al-Kosheh were empty and everyone was watching the other. Representatives of families say a repetition of the events’ is possible due to the arsenal of weapons, which are stored in the villagers’ houses.
Date of source: Monday, January 24, 2000
Many ideas have been presented to describe and analyze the incidents of Al-Kosheh. Some have characterized it wrongly as sectarian conflicts, and on the contrary, some have treated it as no problem at all, since priests are shaking hands with sheikhs. Some hurried to accuse the government, and...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 6, 1999
Many donations are given at mosques associated with members of the Prophet Mohammed’s family, like Sayeda Zeinab or Al-Hussein, or those in which a shrine or mausoleum has been erected to the glory of pious and revered figures.
