The activities of the Eighth World Fatwa Conference, held by the Egyptian Fatwa House under the umbrella of the General Secretariat of Fatwa Houses and Bodies in the World, and under the generous patronage of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, will begin at 10 a.m. today, Wednesday, under the title: “Fatwa and the Challenges of the Third Millennium,” and in the presence of scholars. Ministers and muftis from one hundred countries, with broad international participation.

The Eighth Global Conference of the General Secretariat of the Roles and Fatwa Bodies in the World is held under the umbrella of the Egyptian Fatwa House and under the patronage of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, President of the Republic, and in the presence of senior muftis, ministers and scholars. Its activities witness the participation of more than 90 countries, and it also witnesses high-level international participation from a number of bodies. international; This is to discuss the topic “The Fatwa and the Challenges of the Third Millennium.”

The conference is concerned with highlighting the role of fatwas and fatwa institutions in confronting the great challenges facing humanity in the third millennium, most notably the environmental challenges related to climate change, and the challenge of moral and intellectual fluidity such as the spread of atheism and hate speech and the exclusion of religion from people’s lives, as well as the challenges of cyberspace and the health challenges that threaten The lives of millions of people, as well as discussing the economic challenge that threatens the whole world.

The conference's mission is to highlight the role of fatwas and fatwa institutions in confronting the great challenges facing humanity in the third millennium. It also aims to discuss intellectual, moral, economic and political challenges that require issuing enlightened legal fatwas that suit our time and place, achieve the interests of Muslims and humanity as a whole, and seek to exchange experiences and opinions between... The role and fatwa bodies in the world, and developing plans and programs to develop fatwa institutions and raise the efficiency of muftis.