The enthronement of the Egypt's new Coptic pope will be held on 18 November, Bishop Pachomios, the acting patriarch, told Al-Ahram Arabic news website, Monday night

Egypt's striking doctors announced they will form human chains from the Doctors' Syndicate to the Ministry of Health in downtown Cairo

Security officials said Wednesday that no suspects have been arrested, days after gunmen attacked government buildings in the Sinai peninsula

The death of Shenuda, who headed the church for four decades, set in motion the process to elect a new patriarch

The Muslim Brotherhood guidance office invited the internal Brotherhood Shura Council to elect new guidance office members in November

Egypt's president acknowledged the widespread problem of sexual harassment in his country Tuesday

The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday voiced concern over violence against Muslims in Myanmar

A large crowd of Salafi Muslims disrupted an Eid Al-Adha concert in the city of Menya Sunday night to protest what they perceived to be the promotion of Christianity

Three human rights organisations accused Israel of refusing entry to African refugees, mostly from Eritrea

Three social democratic parties from Tunisia, Egypt and Palestine announced on Monday the launch of an organisational committee

A council of Egypt's Coptic Christians voted on Monday in a process that will lead to the selection of a new pope for the ancient church

The leader of al-Qaida has urged Muslims to kidnap Westerners to exchange for imprisoned jihadists

Israeli occupation authorities prevented five Orthodox priests from the Diocese of Jerusalem from traveling to Cairo on Monday to participate in the first round of the Egyptian papal elections.

Sectarian violence and discrimination against Copts in education and the media has increased since the 25 January revolution, said Millet Council Secretary Kamil Seddiq on Monday. “The Bible was burned and the officials did not move … It is time President Morsy proved that he is president of all Egyptians through his deeds, not his words,” Seddiq said.

After several days of violence on the Gaza-Israel border saw at least seven Palestinian militants dead

Coptic Christians are to vote for the final three papal candidates, Monday, one of which will succeed Pope Shenouda III who held the apostolic throne of the Coptic Orthodox Church from 1971 until his death in March.

As different political forces begin campaigning for and against the impending constitutional referendum, the Salafi-oriented Jama’a al-Islamiya said it would organize a million-man march to fight for the application of Sharia in the new constitution.

The National Council for Women (NCW) called on Egypt's Ministry of Interior and security officials in Egypt's northwestern governorate of Matrouh, Saturday, to take the required action to find Sara Abdel-Malik, a 13-year-old girl who was reportedly kidnapped in September.

Informed sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm Saturday that Islamist leaders have nominated Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat al-Shater for the post of People's Assembly speaker in the next Parliament.

Both Grand Imam of al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb and the acting Patriarch of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church Bishop Pachomius called on the Egyptian people

Bishops who have been meeting for three weeks to plot a way forward for a Church whose membership is dwindling in Europe are concerned by Islam's growth