Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In January 2024, as Israel’s bombardment of Gaza continued, a pair of photographs went viral showing the apparent impact of the ...

After five years of tension and top-level silence, Pope Francis and the grand imam of one of the most important Sunni Muslim universities in the world embraced at the Vatican May 23. "The meeting is ...

El-Tayyeb made the remarks during a meeting on Tuesday at Al-Azhar headquarters in Cairo with Sudan’s ambassador to Egypt, Lieutenant General Imadeldin Mustafa Adawi, to discuss ways of strengthening ...

ROME — A leading scholar in the Arab world has applauded the goodwill of both the Vatican and the prestigious Islamic Al-Azhar University Pope Francis will visit for aiming to increase Catholic-Muslim ...

Al-Azhar University in Cairo has trained scholars in Sunni Islamic law for more than a millennium. Over the last two centuries, however, its authority has declined, undermined by Islamism and the ...