Pope Francis called on the Catholic church on Tuesday to stop clinging to conservatism and fundamentalism as a defensive response to the problems it is facing, and said the church ought to be “bruised, hurting and dirty” instead of obsessed with money and power.

During his papal visit to Florence, Pope Francis addressed issues of poverty, exploitation and the image of the Church. He says it has to get ‘bruised, hurting and dirty’ while reaching out to the poor, and less centered around power and money.

Al-Nour Party’s assistant head of legal affairs, Talaat Marzouk, said he will appeal against the Supreme Electoral Commission’s (SEC) decision announcing the “For the love of Egypt” list as the winner of parliamentary elections in West Delta at the court of cassation.

The Religious Endowments Ministry is interrogating one of its imams in Monufiya who had claimed sainthood and printed books promoting the idea.

Unidentified gunmen attacked a police vehicle and were freed a suspect accused of drug trafficking in Egypt’s Delta governorate of Sharqia, Youm7 reported Tuesday.

Air strikes by Gulf Arab members of the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Syria have diminished since they launched an air war against Yemeni rebels in March, a US general said Tuesday.

Following the decision by the Giza court last week to extend the detention of Israa al-Taweel, Egypt’s Homeland Security agency released to the media on Monday what it referred to as al-Taweel’s "confessions" spanning the gamut from plans to assassinate a top official to spreading false information.

The best way to deal with Europe's growing refugee crisis is to close national borders to stop an "Islamic invasion", Dutch anti-immigration politician Geert Wilders says.

The Sinai Peninsula, Egypt (CNN)The Sinai Peninsula is the new front line in the battle against ISIS. But the men defending Sinai aren't soldiers or police. They are Bedouin tribe members, who say they have stopped the terror group without firing a shot.

Egyptian police said on Monday they killed a top Islamic State group operative in the capital implicated in a string of attacks including the murders of a Croat and an American.

Ministry of Interior forces killed an alleged Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis leader during an attempt to arrest him in Al-Marg neighbourhood in Cairo, according to a ministry statement.

An Egypt court has officially endorsed a decision to place 18 Muslim Brotherhood members on a "terrorist list", in a case mired in legal labyrinths as judges and prosecutors begin applying recent counter-terrorism legislation attempting to define terrorism and terrorist entities.

Muqtada Al-Sadr, one of Iraq’s influential Shi'ite leaders, has invited Egypt’s Al-Azhar, the top religious academy in the Sunni Islamic World, to make Jews their common enemy and to set doctrinal differences aside.

A top Cairo-based leader of Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis was killed in an exchange of fire with the police in el-Marg area, northeast of Cairo, according to a Monday police statement.

Former Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and 17 other leaders were put on the list of “Terrorist Entities and Individual” for three years per a court ruling, state official newspaper al-Waqaei al-Masryia reported.

Egypt's Court of Cassation overturned Sunday the life sentences of the Muslim Brotherhood's Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and eight others, who will face a retrial for accusations of murder and inciting violence.

Nour Party candidates who won seats in the first stage of Egypt's parliamentary elections took many by surprise when they revealed their intent not to deal with parliament's female employees as long as they don't wear the niqab — a long black cloth that covers the female face.

Muslim leaders trying to build the first mosque in the northeastern state of New Hampshire face many of the same struggles other houses of worship contend with: Lack of funds and shrinking attendance.

In his first public comments on the latest scandal to hit the Vatican, Pope Francis has told followers in St Peter’s Square that the theft of documents describing financial malfeasance inside the Holy See was a crime but pledged to continue reforms of its administration.

The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State in Syria and Iraq targeted the militants with 23 air strikes on Wednesday, the U.S. military said in a statement.

The Islamist militant group Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, which has been waging an insurgency against the Egyptian army, claimed in an audio recording released online on Wednesday that it was responsible downing the Russian plane over Sinai on Saturday.