An Egyptian Coptic Christian teenager abducted in Libya by armed men who killed her parents has been found dead, a hospital source said on Friday.

Masked gunmen in central Libya kidnapped 13 Coptic Christians on Saturday after seven were abducted days earlier, said a witness and a priest, in a new wave of assaults against Egypt’s Christians working in the war-torn North African nation plagued with Islamic extremists.

Deposed President Mohamed Morsy, who faces espionage charges along with 34 other Muslim Brotherhood members, offered felicitations to Cairo Criminal Court and Egyptians over Al-Mawlid Al-Nabawy, Prophet Mohamed’s birth, and Christmas.

A judicial source has revealed names of members belonging to the Muslim-Brotherhood led National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL) whose properties and assets were ordered to be seized by judicial authorities on Saturday.

In a major positive development, Egypt's President Al Sisi has made an impassioned plea for a "religious revolution" in Islam. Speaking at Al Azhar University in Cairo, Sisi spoke directly to the religious establishment of Egypt: