The Maspero Youth Union (MYU) confirmed on Saturday that four Egyptian Copts were detained at a checkpoint on Friday in the Libyan city of Misrata. MYU claims that those detained are being held because they are Christians.

The board of the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate will convene its first meeting in the coming 48 hours following elections that yielded six new board members and a new syndicate chairman. With Nasserist and leftist candidates now forming a substantial bloc within the new syndicate board, and boasting a chairman of known Nasserist affiliations, Ahram Online assesses the significance of the syndicate's new political makeup.

The office of the prosecutor-general ordered on Monday the arrest of three people who work for the Muslim Brotherhood's guidance bureau headquarters.

On Saturday, two passengers on Cairo's underground metro in their early 20s looked jaded, but they still shouted at the top of their voices, demanding an end to the “rule of the Supreme Guide.

On Saturday, two passengers on Cairo's underground metro in their early 20s looked jaded, but they still shouted at the top of their voices, demanding an end to the “rule of the Supreme Guide.”

Large amounts of tear gas were thrown Monday morning at anti-Brotherhood demonstrators by the Central Security Forces in front of the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in Street 10 of the eastern Cairo suburb of Moqattam forcing protesters to retreat to Street 9.

The Public Prosecution ordered the detention of 15 people Sunday for alleged involvement in clashes at the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in Moqattam, and ordered investigations into why they were present in the area at the time of the clashes.

The possibility of armed militias and vigilante groups run by the Muslim Brotherhood and other hard-line Islamist groups has raised the spectre of a possible confrontation between such militias and the military.

The Construction and Development Party, Jama’a al-Islamiya’s political arm, called on all political parties Sunday to find ways to use popular committees to restore security, which police have been unable to do, rather than asking the army to fulfill that task.

Clashes erupted on Saturday night between protesters and members of the Muslim Brotherhood in front of the group's headquarters in the eastern Cairo suburb of Moqattam.

Controversial Salafist figure Hazem Salah Abu-Ismail criticised the political opponents of President Mohamed Morsi at the first press conference of the Umma Alliance, a newly-formed seven-party coalition, on Friday.

Head of the Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies Diaa Rashwan won the seat of the head of the Journalists Syndicate in elections held on Friday.

Coptic Pope Tawadros II has reached out to Coptic youth movements after recent troubles in Libya for the group, saying, "If you choose the route of struggle, then it has to be peaceful."

Islamist preacher Ahmed Abdullah, known as “Abu Islam", was referred on Sunday to trial in a blasphemy case. Prosecution has charged Abu Islam with contempt of religion and spreading news that are likely to disrupt public security.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood have claimed that a UN declaration calling for an end to violence against women will lead to the "complete disintegration of society".

Gunmen on Thursday attacked an Egyptian Coptic church in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi and started a fire, witnesses said.

Sunni Islam's highest seat of learning, Al-Azhar, said on Thursday that it wants "better relations" with the Vatican under Pope Francis.

Gamal Nassar, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood, has resigned from the group's political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), citing its "poor performance."

Pope Francis, 76, appeared on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica just over an hour after white smoke poured from a chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel to signal he had been chosen to lead the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood issued a statement on Wednesday denouncing a yet-to-be-ratified UN declaration on women’s rights, asserting that the document contradicts Islamic Law.

The men, Egyptian Copts working in Benghazi, were seized by an Islamist militia but handed over to the government. One, named as Ezzat Atallah, 44, died at the weekend after being "tortured", his brother, Effat, told The Daily Telegraph.