Date of source: الخميس, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 20, 2022
The Vatican and Bahraini authorities are expecting about 28,000 people to participate in the public mass, which will be presided over by Pope Francis, on the morning of Saturday November 4, 2022. The mass is part of the historic Papal visit to the Kingdom of Bahrain, from the 3rd to the 6th of...
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 13, 2022
Bahrain is preparing to welcome Pope Francis I in the coming November in his second visit to the Gulf after signing the Document of Human Fraternity in the USA in 2019, where Pope Francis met the Shaykh al-Azhar and the Council of Muslim Elders. Bahrain is known for its efforts in religious...
Date of source: الأحد, أيلول (سبتمبر) 11, 2022
Prof. Dr. Hassan Wagieh [Ḥassan Wajīh] is a Professor Emeritus, Linguistics Department, Faculty of Languages, at the prestigious Azhar University in Egypt. Prof. Wajīh is a long-time friend of Cornelis Hulsman, editor-in-chief of Arab-West Report/Dialogue Across Borders. In April 2022 Hulsman...
Date of source: الجمعة, آب (اغسطس) 5, 2022
The past few months witnessed two noticeable attacks in the media on Imam Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib, Shaykh of al-Azhar. Last February, al-Ṭayyib was harshly criticized after old statements of his were discussed again and interpreted to permit “wife beating”.
On that day, Dār al-Iftāʾ tweeted, via its...
Date of source: الأحد, آذار (مارس) 27, 2022
Belgian Ambassador, François Cornet, visited today the Virgin Mary Monastery in Jabal at- Ṭayr village, al-Minya, which the Vatican Pope included among the Path of the Holy Family.
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 22, 2021
For the first time in years, Catholics in Egypt don’t have to work on Christmas, not because the government made it a national holiday, but because their Christmas happens to fall on the weekend, on Friday and Saturday.
For many ages, Egyptian Catholics have demanded that the western Christmas (the...
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 10, 2021
Dr Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib, Grand Imam of al-Azhar al-Sharīf, headed to the Italian capital of Rome in early October to attend the Summit of Religious Leaders for Climate Change under the title (Faith and Science) on the 4thOctober, a prelude to the UN Conference COPE 26 (the 26h UN Climate Change...
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 15, 2021
On Monday, Major General ʿIṣām Saʿad, Governor of Asyūṭ, met with Archbishop Nicolas Henry, the Vatican’s Ambassador to Egypt and representative of His Holiness Pope Francis. Archbishop Nicolas Henry visited some churches in various districts of the governorate, and met with Muslim and Christian...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 10, 2021
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Egyptian Family House (Bayt al-ʿĀʾila), the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib, criticized the "New Abrahamic religion”, describing it as “a pipe dream”. His statements revived a debate that has been on and off for more than a year on social media.
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 4, 2021
The Grand Imam, Dr Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib, Shaykh of al-Azhar and His Holiness Pope Francis, Pope of the Catholic Church, held a meeting on Monday at the Vatican, following their participation in the Interfaith Leaders Summit on Climate Change.