Pope Francis on Saturday proclaimed an extraordinary Holy Year starting in December that he said will bring the Roman Catholic Church and its 1.2 billion followers back to basics, focusing them on the need to show mercy toward others.

Nasr City Misdemeanor Court sentenced Mohamed Mahsoub, Mohamed Morsi’s former minister for legal and parliamentarian affairs, to three years in jail Wednesday for fraud, Youm7 reported.

The Islamic concept of “Jihad” has been misused for the alleged goal of establishing an “Islamic caliphate”, while the concept is not meant to impose Islam on others, according to the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Ahmed Al-Tayyeb.

Egypt's armed forces killed 29 suspected militants and arrested 32 more in security campaigns on the Sinai peninsula this week, the army spokesman said on Thursday.

Archbishop Anglios al-Naqady, representative of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Ethiopia, said the Church "prays every day for the success of Egypt under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi."

Turkish President, Teyib Recep Erdogan said the release of ousted Egypt President, Mohamed Morsi and the cancellation of death sentences against his supporters is a prerequisite for reviewing relations with Egypt.“Morsi is an elected president who bagged 52 percent of the vote, he should be released, Erdogan told reporters following his return from Iran.

One NATO coalition soldier was killed in a firefight that broke out between NATO and Afghan troops in east Afghanistan, the coalition said in a statement.

Security forces have shot a suspected assailant during an attack on the Imbaba police station in Giza, in which a police officer was injured, Youm7 reported Tuesday.

The life sentences of 10 Muslim Brotherhood protesters were upheld by the Cassation Court Wednesday for allegedly killing a cab driver in Mansoura in 2013, Youm7 reported.

With the continuation of Operation Decisive Storm, which the Saudi-led coalition has been carrying out against the Houthis in Yemen since March 26, more positions continue to emerge on the operation — some in support and some opposed — thus redrawing the map of alliances in the region.

An Egyptian misdemeanors court sentenced six leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood to 15 years in jail in absentia, and three years to six other members who were present in court on Wednesday for inciting murder of policemen, Aswat Masriya reported.

Egypt's state media regulator has warned the broadcaster of a controversial show discussing Islam that it should revise the show's content, its head told Ahram Online on Monday.

A total of 525 Egyptians have fled Yemen since the Saudi-led coalition started airstrikes on 25 March, according to a Monday statement by the Egyptian foreign ministry.

An Egyptian prosecutor has referred nearly 190 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to a military court over charges of storming a police station nearly two years ago.

The Ministry of Religious Endowments said it will put schools allegedly belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood under scrutiny, and will change their current management.

Ryan Mauro of the Clarion Project claims his organization has uncovered evidence that former President George W. Bush was scheduled to meet with “Islamists linked to the Muslim Brotherhood” on 9/11. Because of the devastating attacks of the day, the meetings didn’t happen.

A conscript and three civilians were injured in an armed attack outside Rafael Angel Church in Alexandria Sunday, Youm7 reported.

Islamist militants and fighters loyal to the Syrian government have made a rare prisoner swap, with insurgents releasing 25 women and children in exchange for one of their commanders, a monitoring group said on Monday.

Egypt's ministry of interior announced killing the founder of Ajnad Misr militant group on Sunday after identifying his location in an apartment in a Giza suburb.

Islamist militants hit Egypt's two largest cities on Sunday with a bombing in Cairo and an attack on a church in Alexandria, leaving one policeman dead and seven people wounded, security sources said.

Egyptian authorities have arrested the sons of Hamza Zawbaa, a leader of the now blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood, an interior ministry source said, amid a continuing crackdown on Islamists.