The Alexandria Criminal Court ratified on Monday the death sentence of the Islamist accused of throwing a child off a roof in Alexandria during the fatal clashes that occurred in July last year. The court order is in line with the Grand Mufti Shawqy Allam’s advice.

When Pope Francis meets the spiritual head of the world's Orthodox Christians next week, the speeches and symbolism will focus on how these ancient western and eastern wings of Christianity want to come closer together.

Shubra's Criminal Court, held at Cairo's Police Academy, has sentenced 38 supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi to 15 years in prison for storming a Giza metro station.

Shubra al-Kheima Criminal Court said on Sunday that it will issue a verdict in the case of 48 Brotherhood defendants who are accused of blocking Qalyub road back in 2012.

The Shubra al-Kheima Criminal Court on Sunday sentenced 37 Brotherhood supporters to 15 years in prison and fined each LE20,000 for attempting to bomb the College of Agriculture Metro Station during celebrations of the October victory in 2013, smashing the entrance gates of the station and shooting at police forces and residents of the area.

Egypt's largest Islamist coalition has urged Egyptian expats to boycott the presidential vote, which started overseas on Thursday, and called for a week of peaceful protests against the elections slated for 26-27 May inside the country.

Cairo Criminal Court adjourned Thursday to 22 May the trial of Al-Jazeera journalists, including four foreigners, accused of joining a terrorist organisation and airing false news. The defendants will remain in detention during that time after bail was denied.

The Cairo Criminal Court acquitted on Wednesday former Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mahdi Akef on the charge of insulting the judiciary.

Coptic Solidarity will host its Fifth Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., June 26 – 27 focusing on the theme: After Arab Spring, Middle East Christians Between Local Violence and International Indifference

Omraniya prosecutors on Wednesday remanded 28 Brotherhood members into custody on charges of bullying and burning an empty public transport bus in Haram last January.

The Vatican and the Coptic Church are more united than divided, Pope Francis told Coptic Patriarch Pope Tawadros II in a Tuesday message to commemorate the Coptic pope’s last year visit to the Vatican.

Cairo Urgent Matters Court on Wednesday set 21 May to issue a verdict in a lawsuit demanding the ban of the National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL), which supports deposed President Mohamed Morsy and rejects the military coup.

The leader of Egypt's main Christian sect has said the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi reflected the “pulse of the street.”

Ayman Nour, member of the National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL), said on Tuesday that the alliance is negotiating with former Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei, former presidential candidate Khaled Ali and Strong Egypt Party founder Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh to join it and topple what it called military rule.

Cairo Criminal court adjourned on Tuesday the trial of ousted President Mohamed Morsi over the violence that broke out in front of Ithadeya Presidential Palace to May 14 to continue hearing the witnesses.

An influential Qatar-based Islamist whose fiery sermons have caused tension between Gulf states said on Sunday that Egyptian presidential front runner Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will only bring downfall to the country.

Magdy Qorqor, a leading member of Egypt's largest Islamist alliance, said the binary division currently engulfing the country could have been prevented if Muslim Brotherhood supporters had agreed to hold a referendum on deposed president Mohamed Morsi prior to his ouster.

A committee tasked with appraising the monetary assets of the Muslim Brotherhood has seized the funds of 30 Brotherhood leaders as well as those of 12 NGOs and six companies allegedly affiliated to the outlawed group.

Egypt's Pope Tawadros II, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, visited Sunday the United Arab Emirates' Mar Mina Church as part of his five-day visit to the Gulf state.

A court in Egypt sentenced seven Muslim Brotherhood supporters to life in prison on Sunday for blocking the ring-road in Qalyubia in light of the police's dispersal of the Rabaa and Nahda sit-ins last August.

Egypt's Islamist Salafist Call movement, the mother-movement of the Salafist Nour Party that garnered the second-largest number of seats in Egypt's 2012 parliamentary elections, said its political party could be dissolved if the only other option was bloodshed.