Emergency meeting of world Islamic council to discuss Jerusalem issue
Al-Azhar Grand Imam, Mohamed Sayed Tantawi will head today morning the two-day emergency meeting of the World Islamic Council for Daa'wa and relief.
Minister of Wakfs Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzoq, the Republic's mufti Nasr Farid Wasel and Council's Vice Chairman Abdul Rahman Sowar Al-Zahab are due to take part in the meeting.
The thirty eight session of council's will discuss coordination of people's efforts in fields of human relief to Palestinian people.
It will also consider the Jerusalem issue, the Islamic world attitude towards it and the situation in the Palestinian occupied lands.
Moreover, Grand Imam of AL Azhar Mohammed Sayed Tantawi and Pope Shenouda III affirmed late Monday the religious importance and signifance of Jerusalem.
In a televised interview, Tantwai highlighted the importance of Jerusalem for Muslims especially as it embraces their third holiest shrine, Al-Haram AL Sharif.
Pope Shenouda III, on his part, denounced the Israeli brutal Israeli practices in the occupied Palestinian territories.
A world Islamic conference will be held Thursday in solidarity with the Palestinian situation and to support the Islamic right in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The conference will be chaired by Al-Azhar Grand Imam, Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, will head the conference, who said that the conference will declare Islam's opinion of the Israeli aggression on the sacred lands and will call on the Islamic nation to cooperate in facing this aggression.
