Egypt's Coptic Pope Tawadros II, the leader of the country's largest Christian denomination, is to resume his weekly sermon on Wednesday after a hiatus that lasted over a month, cathedral officials told Ahram Online.

President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi called for uniting the fatwa bodies due the “deformation” of the image of Islam during Dar al-Iftaa’s international conference Tuesday, reported a release from the presidency.

A senior Amnesty International official has been found to have private links with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and revolutionary Islamists accused of plotting a coup in an Arab state.

In the four years since the Arab Spring, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has gone from the streets to the presidential palace and back again. Now, with its leader sentenced to death and its followers persecuted by President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s regime, the Muslim Brotherhood is at a critical juncture. Will it be destroyed? Will it give up on its doctrine of nonviolence? Or will it just fade away, its younger members drawn to more radical movements such as ISIS?

The chairman of the centrist Islamist Wasat Party Abul Ela Mady resumed his political activity on Saturday, a few days after his release from custody, according to sources.

Egypt’s Dar al-Ifta held a two-day international Fatwa conference to counter radical extremism entitled Fatwa: current reality and future prospects, with the participation of 50 countries, Youm7 reported Monday.

It said it was “doing everything in its power” and working with the Croatian Embassy in Cairo to obtain information about the kidnapped man. “The ministry is also keeping close contact with the victim’s family”, it said.

The lawyer of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi challenged on Saturday a death sentence and a life in prison sentence handed to the former president.

Remarks by Egypt's education minister on whether school-age girls should or should not wear the hijab triggered confusion and initiated rumours that the government would ban the Islamic scarf in schools.

As Egypt prepares for parliamentary elections at the end of this year there are growing concerns that secular political parties might not be able to compete well. Not only do non-Islamist parties complain of election laws that allocate the majority of seats in the coming parliament to independents, but also internal power struggles and ideological differences could seriously compromise their performance in the coming polls.

The leader of Nigeria's Boko Haram denied he had been killed or ousted as chief of the jihadist group in an audio recording released Sunday attributed to him by security experts.

Islamic State group jihadists have beheaded 12 people and hung them on crosses during a battle for the coastal city of Sirte, the national news agency LANA reported Saturday.

The militant group Islamic State said in an audio broadcast on Thursday that its Egyptian affiliate had killed a Croatian hostage, a day after a photograph of a beheaded corpse purported to be that of the Croat was circulated by the group’s supporters.

Houthi rebels discussed Wednesday withdrawal from Sanaa, Yemeni informed sources told the London-based newspaper Asharq al-Awsat Thursday.

The killing of a Croatian citizen at the hands of Egypt’s Islamic State affiliated in North Sinai is “vile and criminal,” Al-Azhar said Wednesday, strongly denouncing the beheading of Tomislav Salopek.

Strict security measures are being enforced nationwide in preparation for 14 August, the second anniversary of the violent dispersal of two pro-Morsi sit-ins, state-owned news agency MENA reported.

The Khanka Misdemeanor Court of Appeals on Thursday sentenced a police officer to five years hard labor over killing 37 prisoners allegedly belong to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, Youm7 reported.

Egypt's prosecution referred Muslim Brotherhood Supreme leader Mohamed Badie on Tuesday to criminal court in a new case over allegedly staging an "armed sit-in" in 2013 in Rabaa El-Adawiya Square in Cairo, Ahram Arabic news website reported.

A military court on Tuesday sentenced 250 Muslim Brotherhood members to life in jail for their involvement in violent actions that took place in the Nile Delta governorate Beheira following the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.

Islamic State's Egyptian affiliate published a photograph it said showed the beheaded body of a Croatian hostage it had threatened to kill last week, the SITE monitoring service said on Wednesday.

Apache helicopters carried out air strikes on "Ansar bayt al-Maqdis militants" in North Sinai on Tuesday, leaving 15 dead and 10 injured, security sources said.