A Minya military court sentenced earlier on Thursday four pro-Morsi supporters to seven years in jail each for storming a governmental agency headquarters in Minya governorate.
Egypt's highest court on Wednesday quashed death sentences imposed on 14 Islamists over an attack on a police station in protest at the military's overthrow in 2013 of then-President Mohamed Mursi, the state news agency MENA said.
Egypt’s Iftaa House will host an international conference under the title, “Scholarly Preparation, Fatwa Issuance Training for Imams in Muslim Minority Communities.â€
Al Azhar Observatory welcomed UNESCO adoption to an Arab resolution saying that the Al-Aqsa Compound and the Noble Sanctuary is an Islamic site for the Muslims.
Egypt's Grand Imam, Shawky Allam, one of the world’s highest Sunni Muslim authorities, hailed Friday a UNESCO resolution that uses only the Islamic names for parts of the Old City of Jerusalem, such as "Al-Aqsa Compound" or "Al-Ḥaram Al-Sharif," and denounces Israel for restricting Muslim access to the holy site and for aggression by Israeli occupation forces and extreme settler groups.
Egypt successfully launched 13 airstrikes in Libya last year against "terrorist targets", as retaliation against the killing of 20 Egyptian Christians by militants in the country, the commander of Egypt's air force told local media on Thursday.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2012 called the election of Egypt’s Islamist Muslim Brotherhood leader a “milestone†for Egyptian democracy and offered covert police and security help, according to declassified State Department documents.
At a time when Coptic Christians are suffering abuses “every two or three days†in Egypt, a Muslim woman in America has made a video calling for more Muslim hostility against the Christian minority, in this case, in the guise of an economic boycott.
Morocco's King Mohammed VI Monday tasked Abdelilah Benkirane to keep his post as prime minister and form a new government after his Islamist party won last week's parliamentary elections, the royal court said.
The Maspero United Youth movement announced on Saturday that they will not hold or participate in any events to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Maspero Massacre, in which 28 were killed and 212 were injured—mainly Coptic protestors. The group’s announcement comes in response to the Ministry of Interior’s rejection of their request to arrange a silent protest, which was scheduled to take place on Sunday.
The Islamist party which has headed Morocco's coalition government since Arab Spring-inspired protests five years ago has beaten liberal rivals in parliamentary elections, results showed Saturday.
Moroccans went to the polls on Friday to elect a new parliament, five years after an Islamist-led government took office following Arab Spring-inspired protests that toppled regimes across the region.
Egypt's state TV decided to suspend Thursday a presenter of a morning show for two episodes for offensive remarks against January 25 Revolution protesters, and not for praising Hosni Mubarak's role in the 6 October War, the head of the news department of the Egyptian Radio and Television Union (ERTU), Khaled Mehanna, told Ahram Online
The Interior Ministry denied Coptic youth activists a permit to hold a protest ahead of the fifth anniversary of the deadly Maspero clashes, citing "security reasons."
The west Tanta prosecution decided on Monday ordered the detention of ten people, allegedly belong to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group, for 15 days pending investigations over violence related charges, Youm7 reported.
Two members of the Muslim Brotherhood were killed in a police shootout on Monday, including a senior leader in charge of the group's "armed wing", according to a statement released by the Interior Ministry early on Tuesday.
Salafists’ keenness to welcome Coptic Patriarch, Pope Tawadros during his recent visit to Matrouh raised a state of controversy inside the Islamist current, Youm7 reported on Monday.
One thousand Coptic Christians have been covertly relocated from Egypt to Hungary to flee increasing levels of persecution, according to government officials.
Thousands of Sufi Muslims are expected to march Sunday to celebrate the Islamic New Year in Cairo, Youm7 reported.
The Muslim Council of Elders, chaired by Azhar's Grand Imam Ahmed Al Tayeb, revealed that Cairo will hot host an international conference on peace, and co-existence, with participations of representatives from Eastern churches in January 2017, Youm7 reported.
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The Coptic Christians are used to eat taro and reeds at the feast of Epiphany, which commemorates the baptizing of Jesus Christ in Jordan River.