World
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International
1/11/2023 12:50:07 PM
French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo doubled down on its ridicule of Iran's religious rulers on Tuesday, with fresh cartoons of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei despite protests from Iran and its allies.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
1/9/2023 10:53:03 PM
Egypt and Somalia signed on Monday a number of MoUs in various fields of cooperation, including higher education, media and cultural and religious cooperation.
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Egypt
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Society
12/21/2022 8:10:09 PM
Egypt's Grand Mufti Shawki Allam revealed on Wednesday that Dar Al-Ifta has issued more than 1,563,250 fatwas (religious edicts) during 2022, with family issues – related to family protection, marriage, and divorce -- occupying the first place among the various types of fatwas with 63 percent.
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World
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Region
12/11/2022 10:33:45 PM
Iran has jailed for 10 years each two prominent Bahai figures as part of a crackdown on its largest non-Muslim religious minority, the group representing the community at the UN said Sunday.
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World
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International
12/10/2022 9:25:20 PM
Japan's parliament on Saturday enacted a law to restrict malicious donation solicitations by religious and other groups, which mainly targets the Unification Church, whose fundraising tactics and cozy ties with the governing party caused public outrage.
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World
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Africa
12/4/2022 10:05:00 PM
Flash flooding that followed heavy rains has killed at least 14 people taking part in religious rituals in Johannesburg, with others still missing, emergency services said Sunday.
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World
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International
11/30/2022 2:41:39 PM
At least 16 people were killed and 24 others wounded Wednesday by a blast at religious school in Afghanistan's northern city of Aybak, a doctor at a local hospital said.
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Egypt
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Society
11/23/2022 11:00:05 PM
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi issued instructions on Wednesday, during a meeting with Minister of Religious Endowments Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa, to develop the training and qualification programmes for imams.
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World
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International
11/10/2022 9:51:38 PM
The Taliban are banning women from using gyms in Afghanistan, an official in Kabul said Thursday, the religious group's latest edict cracking down on women's rights and freedoms since they took power more than a year ago.
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World
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Region
11/9/2022 11:18:23 AM
A Palestinian teenager was killed Wednesday in clashes with Israeli occupation army that erupted during a visit by right-wing politicians to a sensitive religious site in the occupied West Bank, multiple sources said.
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World
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Region
11/1/2022 11:17:50 PM
Exit polls in Israel on Tuesday indicate that former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies may have won enough seats to return to power in a nationalist and religious government after three and a half years of political gridlock.
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Egypt
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Society
10/25/2022 11:30:53 PM
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said on Tuesday that religious practices in the region “need to be rethought” for the modern world to keep pace with the developments and challenges in society.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/20/2022 8:42:40 PM
Al-Azhar – the Sunni Muslim world’s top religious institution – welcomed on Thursday Australia’s recent reversal of its 2018 recognition of West Jerusalem (known in Arabic as ‘Al-Quds Al-Gharbiya’) as Israel’s capital.
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COP27
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Climate change
10/18/2022 5:57:55 PM
The Centre of Christian-Muslim Understanding and Partnership (CCMUP) has recently stressed that protecting the environment is a divine command, a religious duty, and a moral responsibility.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/11/2022 7:11:49 PM
Al-Azhar, the Sunni Muslim world’s top religious institution, has condemned Israeli settlers for tearing and burning copies of the Holy Quran in Hebron as an act of "Zionist barbarism and racism', decrying the international community's silence.
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Egypt
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Society
10/5/2022 5:10:42 PM
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi attended on Wednesday a ceremony held by the country's religious endowments ministry on the anniversary birth of the Prophet Muhammad (Moulid El-Nabi).
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/2/2022 10:34:40 PM
Italy is ready to enhance bilateral cooperation with Egypt in energy security, Mediterranean and Middle East stability, human rights, and religious freedom, new Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni stressed on Sunday.
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World
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Africa
10/2/2022 8:28:48 PM
Burkina Faso's ousted coup leader has offered his resignation as long as his security and other conditions were met, and the new junta leader who overthrew him has accepted the deal, religious leaders mediating the West African nation's latest political crisis said Sunday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/4/2022 1:38:03 PM
Upon the directive of Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayyeb, the Egyptian Zakat and Charity House recently sent tens of tons of foodstuffs and medicines to Sudanese residents who were affected by the devastating floods, Egypt’s top religious authority Al-Azhar said in a statement Saturday evening.
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Egypt
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Society
9/3/2022 5:50:48 PM
Egyptian Minister of Religious Endowments Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa revealed that the upcoming 33rd International Conference of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs will discuss climate change and the Islamic Sharia rulings pertaining to the environment.
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