France's United Protestant Church (EPUdF) voted on Sunday to allow pastors to bless same-sex marriages, two years after Paris legalized gay nuptials amid protests backed by the majority Roman Catholic Church.

“Five members of our group had visited the so called the atheists’ street in downtown Cairo, I think it should be named the street of astray,” said Salafist leader Yasser Borhami Saturday.

Islamic State sympathisers in the Gaza Strip are making their presence felt on social media, but the enclave's Hamas rulers said on Thursday the group has no real foothold in the Palestinian territory.

Eight suspected militants were killed in confrontations with security forces in North Sinai's city of al-Arish on Thursday, military sources said.

Egypt’s football superstar Mohamed Abou-Treika has denied that the tourism company – which he co-owns and is facing legal action for – is linked to the banned Muslim Brotherhood.

The defunct Freedom and Justice Party, the Muslim Brotherhood's political wing, announced late Wednesday the death of its leading figure Farid Ismail, who is serving time in prison for violence crimes.

The share of US residents who identify as Christian has shrunk over the past seven years while adults unaffiliated with organized religion now represent a larger portion of the public, a poll released on Tuesday found.

Security authorities in Qena arrested Chairman of Gamaa Islamiyya Essam Derbala, a security source told Youm7 Wednesday.

Islamic State fighters killed dozens in an attack on Syrian army-held areas in Homs province overnight, an organization monitoring the war said, as the group intensifies efforts to expand beyond its strongholds.

Four security personnel were killed in an explosion near Rafah city in North Sinai on Wednesday, Egypt's armed forces spokesman said.

Sixteen students at an industrial high school in Egypt's Nile Delta Beheira governorate were injured in a birdshot-drive-by shooting by unknown assailants, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

The Vatican has officially recognized the state of Palestine in a new treaty. The treaty, which was finalized Wednesday but still has to be signed, makes clear that the Holy See has switched its diplomatic relations from the Palestinian Liberation Organization to the state of Palestine.

A senior Pakistani police officer says gunmen shot and killed two paramilitary troops and two workers for an army-owned company at a canal construction site in the country’s southwest.

Eight Morsi supporters were sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia Tuesday over charges of illegal protesting and for acts of violence in the eastern Al-Marg district of Cairo.

12 students were injured in the Delta governorate of Beheira following a seemingly random shooting, Youm 7 reported Tuesday.

Lawyer Samri Sabry filed a complaint against 15 Egyptian footballers accusing them of affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood, and demanding an investigation of their assets Tuesday.

Egyptian Prime Minster Ibrahim Mahlab requested the French Audiovisual Council to halt the broadcasts of pro-Muslim Brotherhood private TV Al Sharq in an official visit to Paris, Youm 7 reported Tuesday.

With the aim of countering radical ideologies, "terrorism" and “Islamic State” (IS) propaganda, Egypt's Islamic scholars have set out on several tours around Europe to "modify the image of Islam".

Thirty Egyptian tribes based in Sinai said on Sunday they would confront militant groups including an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) affiliate that has killed hundreds of soldiers and police, in a boost to Egypt’s efforts to improve security.

Two years after their meeting in Rome, Pope Francis has sent a message to Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

The Egyptian authorities have seized assets of former national football star Mohamed Aboutrika, amid allegations that he helped fund banned Islamist movement the Muslim Brotherhood.