Egypt's Ahly said late on Sunday that they have acquired the necessary permits to start the construction of a new stadium on the outskirts of Cairo, fulfilling a long-held target of building their own venue.
Ahly have used Cairo's International (...)
Veteran winger Walid Soliman was included in Ahly's squad for Saturday's African Champions League game away to Sudanese giants Merreikh following more than two months on the sidelines.
Soliman has been out of action since picking up an injury in (...)
Al-Azhar's Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayyeb fiercly condemned on Thursday the abhorrent terror attack that took place Thursday morning at the Notre Dame cathedral in Nice, which left three dead and several injured.
Al-Azhar reaffirmed in a statement (...)
The Egyptian Red Crescent (ERC) began the sterilisation of Al-Ahram Establishment's buildings under an initiative to sterilise and disinfect government institutions and headquarters amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Al-Ahram received volunteers from (...)
The Grand Imam of Egypt's Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayeb discussed on Thursday cooperation with Hamad Salem bin Kardous Al-Ameri, Director-General of UAE's Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan Charitable and Humanitarian Foundation, in Africa.
According to a (...)
Egyptian police killed on Tuesday two “dangerous wanted criminals” in a shootout in Upper Egypt's Aswan governorate, the Ministry of Interior said in a statement.
One of the criminals was involved in the killing of a police detective during a (...)
In a speech during the second "Interfaith Summit on Promoting Child Dignity in the Digital World” held at the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences, El-Tayeb stressed the need to end imminent threats to children.
He said children were nearing (...)
The Grand Imam of Egypt's Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayeb and Al-Azhar delegation arrived in Rome on Thursday to meet with the head of the Catholic Church Pope Francis II and to participate in the "Interfaith Summit on Promoting Child Dignity in the (...)
Egyptian judge Mohamed Abdel-Salam, a former adviser to the grand imam of Al-Azhar, received the Commenda con Placca dell'Ordine di Pio IX, or Knight Commander with Star of the Order of Pius IX, at the Vatican on Friday, Al-Azhar (...)
A security source said Friday that a report posted on some pages on Facebook claiming that an attack was carried out against Al-Safa security checkpoint on the ring road in Al-Arish in North Sinai killing a number of policement on Friday morning was (...)
A security source said that the statement of the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) relied on information from unreliable sources.
Such information aims at creating a state of confusion and tension in the Egyptian street, the source said.
He (...)
The first meeting of the Higher Committee for implementing the objectives of the Human Fraternity Document took place at the Vatican headquarters in the presence of Pope Francis on Wednesday.
During the meeting, the members of the committee elected (...)
The opening of the new headquarters of the Egyptian Ministry of Interior's Passport, Emigration, and Nationality Administration will be on 1 July.
The new headquarters of the administration is located at the Police Academy in Cairo's Abbasiyah (...)
Egypt's Al-Azhar, the world's leading Sunni Islamic institution, condemned the two suicide bombings that targeted security forces in the Tunisian capital on Thursday. The attack killed one officer and wounded 8 others.
Al-Azhar asserted that the (...)
The head of Al-Azhar, Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayyeb, has condemned statements by Burmese President Aung San Suu Kyi and Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban about the “risks” posed by Muslim migrants.
In a statement on Thursday, El-Tayyeb said the (...)
Pope Tawadros II has expressed his greetings to Al-Azhar's Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayyeb and all Muslims on the advent of Eid Al-Fitr in a visit by the head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church and a church delegation to Al-Azhar on Saturday.
Eid Al-Fitr (...)
Egypt's interior ministry announced on Friday that it had killed two terrorists while foiling an attack targeting a police checkpoint in Egypt's South Sinai, a statement read.
The statement said that police forces confronted “armed terrorist (...)