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President El-Sisi orders improving financial conditions of preachers
Egypt
February 8, 2023
President El-Sisi orders improving financial conditions of preachers
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has called for pursuing efforts aimed at improving the financial conditions of preachers and imams…
Sisi directs to develop training programs to rehabilitate Imams
Egypt
November 24, 2022
Sisi directs to develop training programs to rehabilitate Imams
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi directed on Wednesday 23/11/2022 to develop training programs to rehabilitate Imams especially that they shoulder…
President El-Sisi’s Speech Commemorating Prophet Mohammed’s Birth
Egypt
October 6, 2022
President El-Sisi’s Speech Commemorating Prophet Mohammed’s Birth
“In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful” Your Eminence, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Honorable scholars…
Endowments Ministry dismisses 9 preachers over links to terrorist group
Egypt
November 22, 2019
Endowments Ministry dismisses 9 preachers over links to terrorist group
The Ministry of Endowments ended the service of nine preachers from Sohag and Qalyubiya, a decision which prevents them…
Endowments Ministry instructs imams to prohibit participation in Jan 25 protests
Egypt
January 5, 2016
Endowments Ministry instructs imams to prohibit participation in Jan 25 protests
The Religious Endowments Ministry distributed a leaflet to mosques on Monday that instructs imams to prohibit participation in protests on January 25 during…
Imams can swim with foreigners to support tourism: Endowments Ministry
Egypt
November 11, 2015
Imams can swim with foreigners to support tourism: Endowments Ministry
The Religious Endowments Ministry has given imams permission to mingle with foreign tourists in Egypt's resort cities to support tourism…
Imam who claimed sainthood interrogated
Egypt
November 11, 2015
Imam who claimed sainthood interrogated
The Religious Endowments Ministry is interrogating one of its imams in Monufiya who had claimed sainthood and printed books promoting…
Ministry slammed for installing monitor cams in mosques
Egypt
August 25, 2015
Ministry slammed for installing monitor cams in mosques
The Endowments Ministry has raised observers’ ire with its plans to install monitoring cams at mosques, the latest measure in…
Influential Salafi preachers banned from Eid sermons
Egypt
July 14, 2015
Influential Salafi preachers banned from Eid sermons
The Ministry of Endowments has banned influential Salafi preachers Mohamed Hassan and Mohamed Hussein Yakoub from preaching during the Eid…
Endowments ministry: poisoning plots targeting Ramadan congregations
Egypt
June 18, 2015
Endowments ministry: poisoning plots targeting Ramadan congregations
The Ministry of Religious Endowments has announced it had received warnings from security authorities about alleged attempts to poison people…