The speaker of Egypt's parliament, Ali Abdel-Al, said on Monday that a landmark law aimed at regulating the construction and restoration of churches will be debated in a plenary session Tuesday.

Five committees at the parliament approved Article 5 of the draft law on building churches that gives a governor a grace period of four months to license church applications. The committees are the Housing Committee, the Legislation Committee, the Religious Affairs Committee, the Local Administration Committee and the Culture and Media Committee.

Coptic student Mariam Malak, known as zero schoolgirl, scored 94% during the high school exams this year after ending her Arabic language exam delayed by a decision from Egypt’s minister of Education, According to sources.

Bishop Mounir Hanna of the Episcopal Church in Egypt and Africa said he will file a new lawsuit against the Evangelical Church to separate the two churches, Youm7 reported.

MP Suzy Nashed criticized Article 2 of church building draft law, saying it raised a state of controversy among the parliamentarians during its discussion, Youm7 reported on Monday.

The State Council's legislation department began its review of the church building and renovation draft law on Saturday, head of the department Ahmed Abo al-Azm said.

The first three-day forum of Muslim- Christian Youth will kick off Friday in Al Azhar Sheikhdom, in cooperation with the World Council of Churches. The forum will be participated by 40 Muslim and Christian youths from 14 countries, Youm7 reported.

The current draft of churches building law would lead to major problems with the Salafists, said the Coptic Church’s lawyer Ehab Ramzy.

Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church and the Evangelical Church issued statements on Thursday slamming proposed amendments to the long-awaited church building draft law after Church officials met with state representatives on Wednesday at the cabinet headquarters.

Hostility is escalating and against the Muslims in the United since the beginning og the U.S. presidential race due to presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s remarks against the Muslims, said Al Azhar Observer Thursday.

Egypt’s affiliate of the Islamic State group has confirmed the death of its chief, which comes two weeks after the military announced the killing during an operation in the North Sinai.

Egypt is scheduled to vote as early as next month on a law that would ease the country’s historic restrictions on church construction.

The Egyptian government has restored and rebuilt 70 percent of churches and Christian institutions damaged after the dispersal of the 2013 sit-ins at the Rabaa and Nahda squares, the state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram reported on Wednesday.

The world’s highest seat of Sunni Islam, Egypt’s Al-Azhar, strongly condemned on Wednesday the recurrent storming by Israeli settlers of Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem this week, state news agency MENA reported.

“A culture of religious discrimination is widespread as authorities keep turning their backs on the threats facing Copts in Egypt,” said a statement issued by the independent group Egyptians Against Religious Discrimination, which was read out by its founder Mounir Megahed in a Sunday press conference.

Al-Qaida’s terrorist-in-chief used his public video address to lambaste members of Egypt’s radical Muslim Brotherhood.

The German government has accused Turkey of being a hub for Islamist groups that allows them to further their aims across the Middle East, according to a leaked confidential document.

Ahmed al-Moghir, a fugitive member of the Muslim Brotherhood, has published a statement online claiming that Brotherhood members at the Rabaa al-Adaweya sit-in were heavily armed.

As the third anniversary of the violent dispersal of pro-Mohamed Morsi sit-ins passed quietly without protests or any commemoration events in the streets of Egypt, the currently outlawed Muslim Brotherhood maintained in several statements by its leaders that it will continue its “peaceful revolutionary mobalisation”.

Giza security services launched raids on Sunday targeting eight locations in the areas of Kerdasa, Nahya, al-Haram and 6th of October City, to arrest criminals involved in the attempted assassination of former grand Mufti Ali Gomaa earlier this month.

Egypt's Dar Al-Ifta – the state Islamic authority charged with issuing religious edicts – said recent remarks by the once-ruling Muslim Brotherhood make clear that the movement's "thirst for power" is behind its actions and statements.