Pope Francis received the new King of Spain Felipe VI and his glamorous ex-newsreader wife Queen Letizia at the Vatican on Monday, on their first foreign trip since taking the throne.

The Ministry of Religious Endowments (Awqaf) barred 26,000 Muslim Brotherhood members and Salafists from giving Friday prayer sermons, according to Al-Shorouq.

A series of explosions outside Itihadiya Palace in Heliopolis on Monday morning killed two police explosives experts and injured other policemen, according to the Ministry of Interior.

Mohammed Mokhtar Gomaa explained that the decision should ensure that sermons during Islam’s holy month of fasting “unite people, not divide them,” compared to what he described as a more politicised past when the country was run by Islamist president Mohammed Morsi.

An Egyptian court sentenced on Sunday 16 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to three years in prison and acquitted one person, for rioting in Cairo's Heliopolis during the constitutional referendum earlier this year.

Prominent activist Alaa Abdel Fattah and 24 others who were sentenced to 15 years in jail earlier in June will begin the appeal process on 22 July, according to state-owned Al-Ahram.

Cairo Criminal Court held at the Police Academy postponed Thursday the trial of toppled President Mohamed Morsy and 14 Muslim Brotherhood leaders and former presidency officials over charges of killing protesters at Ettehadiya Presidential Palace to 15 July.

Saudi authorities threatened Thursday to expel non-Muslim foreigners who eat, drink or smoke in public during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which begins this weekend.

Some 40,000 public servants hired by Hamas went on strike in Gaza on Thursday in a pay dispute that could test the resilience of the new Palestinian government, formed just weeks ago under the Islamist group’s unity pact with President Mahmoud Abbas.

The Criminal Court at the Police Academy adjourned Wednesday the re-trial of Mubarak-era Interior Minister Habib al-Adly and Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, who face charges of squandering public funds, to August 26.

Egypt's constitution outlaws insults against the three monotheist religions recognised by the state - Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

Cairo Criminal Court adjourned the trial of ousted President Mohamed Morsi and 14 other co-defendants who are accused of killing and inciting murder against protesters at Ithadeya Palace to June 26, according to Youm7.

Minya Criminal Court sentenced six Muslim Brotherhood supporters to prison terms ranging from one to 20 years over rioting, illegally protesting and attacking police.

Leader of the ultra-conservative Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya Aboud El-Zomor says that choosing a new Egyptian president after Mohamed Morsi's ouster is necessary to prevent a slide into total chaos.

Think of Egypt and the first thing that comes to mind is not Christianity. But Egypt is home to the Copts, one of the world's oldest Christian communities, with roots dating back to the time of Christ himself. Back then, the word Copt meant, simply, Egypt. But after the advent of Islam, it came to mean the Christians of Egypt, and the name has stuck. Copts have never had it easy there. As we first reported last December, they've been persecuted and discriminated against by the Muslim majority for centuries. They'd hoped the Egyptian revolution would change that, but it hasn't.

Trial sessions convened Monday across Cairo the cases of the Rafah second massacre, Ahmed Doma, Mohamed Badie, and were all postponed to later dates.

An administrative court nullified Tuesday a prior decision issued by the Cairo Court for Urgent Matters to seize the funds of 20 schools on charges of affiliation with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, Youm7 reported.

Leader of the ultra-conservative Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya Aboud El-Zomor says that choosing a new Egyptian president after Mohamed Morsi's ouster is necessary to prevent a slide into total chaos.