Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip launched a rocket that landed in the Israeli border town of Sderot on Sunday and Israeli aircraft and tanks responded by shelling the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, the army and police said.

State-run newspaper Al-Ahram published on Sunday a report accusing the BBC of being part of a conspiracy against Egypt that aims to harm the country’s tourism sector.

Egypt is a place that played a role in biblical history, from which God delivered his chosen people, the Israelites. This country, however, has now become a dangerous place for Christian believers.

And they've targeted church leaders including Pope Francis, figures within the Greek Orthodox church and Coptic christians.

This may be because non-Muslims in Muslim-majority countries — such as the Coptic Christian community in Egypt — are more likely to want to ­migrate.

Churches across France opened their doors to Muslims on Sunday to join in prayer with Catholics following the jihadist murder of a priest, the latest in a string of attacks.

Islamic State called on its group members to carry out jihad in Russia in a nine-minute YouTube video on Sunday.

Al-Azhar's Council of Senior Scholars, headed by Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb, has reached a consensus agreement to reject the government's new policy of official, pre-written sermons for Friday prayers, saying the policy is damaging to religious discourse.

Dar Al-Ifta’s Islamophobia Observatory warned on Tuesday against the radical far right-wing in Germany using terrorist attacks in Europe to promote anti-Islam and anti-immigrant campaigns in order to achieve gains in the political sphere.

One of the assailants who slit the throat of an elderly French priest had dreamed of going to Syria and threatened to attack churches -- but seldom visited his local mosque, neighbours said.

Head of the Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros II warned on Monday against the repercussions of recent sectarian violence, citing 37 assaults on Copts since 2013.

A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle near a checkpoint north of Baghdad on Monday, killing 10 people, officials said.

An Egyptian court will begin examining two appeals in October filed by former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, his lawyer and a judicial official told AFP on Thursday.

Islamic State fighters holed up in one of the militant group’s last major strongholds in northern Syria have 48 hours to leave the city, according to an ultimatum issued by the local military council of the United States-supported Syria Democratic Forces

Minya, Egypt - For Christians in Egypt, the possibility of martyrdom is not a remote one.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi warned on Thursday against attempts to drive a wedge between Egyptians and vowed to holdviolators accountable amid a recent series of violent sectarian attacks in the country's south.

The latest in the wave of sectarian attacks on Coptic Christians in Minya Governorate happened Sunday night in Tahana El-Gabal village when a group of Muslims wielding knives and batons attacked the families of Coptic Christian priests and killed 27-year-old Fam Mary Khal. They also injured Rev. Metaous' father, Nagib Hanna, Rev. Boutrous' brother, Malak Aziz, and local priest Azza Jouma.

Mufaddal Saifuddin, spiritual head of the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community, made a LE10 million donation to the Tahya Masr Fund on Tuesday during his meeting with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo.

An Egyptian delegation is set to participate in a Wednesday meeting that aims to combat extremist thoughts and draft media strategies for the international anti-Islamic State group coalition in Washington, a statement by Egypt’s foreign ministry read.

Anger is mounting amongst Minya's Copts after two incidents of sectarian violence, Bishop Macarius of Minya said in statements he made to Ahram Arabic website on Tuesday.

The Cairo Appeal Court assigned the session for the retrial of former president Mohamed Morsi and other leaders in the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood in the Itihadiya Palace case for 8 October, after the defendants’ lawyers’ appeals were accepted.