Tag: Al-Azhar

Parliament to discuss dispute over unified Friday sermon

Ministry of Religious Endowments is determined to apply this sermon amid opposition…

Adham Youssef

Dispute between Al-Azhar, Endowments Ministry intensifies

Al-Azhar changed the topic of the past Friday's unified sermon to discuss…

Adham Youssef

Al-Azhar rejects unified written Friday sermon

Ministry of Religious Endowments imposed the decision to allegedly “regulate religious discourse”

Daily News Egypt

Unified Friday sermon is not oppression: endowments minister

Head of the preaching department reasserts that the concept is not political

Adham Youssef

Unified sermon is in the best interest of society: Ministry of Religious Endowments

The ministry and its affiliated religious figures responded to Al-Azhar’s rejection of…

Sarah El-Sheikh

Egypt condemns terrorist attack in Munich

Nine people killed and 16 injured after shooter opened fire at Olympia…

Daily News Egypt

Preachers divided on unified written Friday sermon

On Friday, Minister of Endowments Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa read out the sermon…

Adham Youssef

Are the so-called guardians of religion taking it too far?

Muslims faced by controversial fatwas while state tightens grip on mosques

Amira El-Fekki

Reconciliation becomes focal point of Minya sectarian strife

Amid attempts to reconcile differences between Coptic and Muslim communities in Minya,…

Adham Youssef

Al-Azhar insists on fighting extremism using various methods: Grand Imam

Al-Azhar is ready to train French imams on the moderate understanding of…

Ahmed Abbas