Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney says the passport belonging to John Maguire, the Canadian featured in an Islamic State video urging attacks against Canadians, was revoked “some time ago.”

The International Islamic Council for Da’wah and Relief revoked the membership of Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi for mixing politics with religion, Youm7 reported Tuesday.

Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria said he prefers to separate boys and girls in the preparatory and secondary stage, a stage where children grow psychologically and spiritually.

The Evangelical community has submitted its notices on the draft law on Christian’s personal status to the Ministry of Transitional Justice.

Qatar-based Egyptian Muslim cleric Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi denied inciting murder on his Facebook page Monday, after international police agency Interpol issued a warrant for his arrest requested by Egypt.

A detainee held in custody over narcotic use in Alexandria has claimed he had been subject to torture by police officers at the Amreya police station, local media reports.

Dar Al-Ifta said the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has violated “all of the provisions and principles of Islam on the treatment of women during wars”.

Ahmed Tharwat, the son-in-law of Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat al-Shater was arrested in the airport Saturday night after returning from Qatar, Youm7 reported.

Former President Mohamed Morsi said Saturday that he was detained at a military base in Alexandria in July 2013 after his ouster, and demanded a private court hearing with current President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi.

Deputy chairman of the Hamas politburo Moussa Abu Marzouk has called for a committee to be formed to look into claims of Hamas's intervention in Egyptian affairs.

Cairo Criminal Court referred four Muslim Brotherhood leaders Sunday, on trial for the killing of nine and injuring more than 90 in front of the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in 2013, to Egypt's grand mufti to consider the death penalty.

Cairo police dispersed on Sunday protests by female students loyal to former president Mohamed Morsy, continuing the standoff between security and anti-government students in place since Morsy’s ouster in 2013 that left some students killed and several others prosecuted.

The new draft law that broadens the branding of terrorist organizations is a violation of the constitution and international law, a rights group has argued. The law has been approved by the Cabinet and is now pending approval by the presidency.

More than 700 Islamic and Christian scholars from 120 states participated in Al-Azhar’s Cairo International Conference on Countering Extremism Wednesday.

They have made enemies across the globe and endured three months of US-led air strikes, but Islamic State fighters have surrendered little of their self-declared caliphate to the broad sweep of forces arrayed against them.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has called on "fellow revolutionaries" to communicate and collaborate as Islamists and other pro-revolutionary groups — known to be rivals — protest the recent verdict clearing ousted president Hosni Mubarak of criminal charges.

Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's most prestigious centre of learning, on Thursday urged Christians in the Arab world to stand firm in the face of jihadist violence and not flee into exile.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has called on "fellow revolutionaries" to communicate and collaborate as Islamists and other pro-revolutionary groups — known to be rivals — protest the recent verdict clearing ousted president Hosni Mubarak of criminal charges.

More than 700 Islamic and Christian scholars from 120 states participated in Al-Azhar’s Cairo International Conference on Countering Extremism Wednesday.

An Iraqi official is denying that a woman detained in Lebanon is a wife of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group.

Head of Egypt's top Sunni Islamic institute, Al-Azhar said on Wednesday he wished the West would experiment their weapons in the desert instead of the bodies and property of the Arabs, as he gave the opening remarks for an international terrorism-fighting conference.