A state of controversy dominated Pope Tawadros II’s Friday visit to the UAE, which is scheduled to last for five days. While the church said the visit came to provide religious services to followers in the Arab state, others claimed the visit was politically motivated.

The head of the Roman Catholic church in the Holy Land said Sunday that Israeli hate crimes against local Muslims and Christians are souring relations ahead of a papal visit.

The Muslim Brotherhood owns around 630 million EGP ($89.6 million) in the form of liquid and wired funds, bonds, and stocks, Youm7 reported Thursday.

The Salafist Nour Party has expressed its support for former Minister of Defense Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi during the coming presidential elections, stirring controversy among politicians and experts who believe such a position contradicts the party’s identity.

International Union for Islamic Scholars (IUIS) said Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawy attended a celebration in Hamad Bin-Khalifa University on Tuesday to celebrate the graduation of new graduates.

Supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi have called for a pluralist climate in Egypt almost a year after the Islamist leader was toppled, urging for a dialogue and requesting the army to disengage from politics.

On Thursday, the Supreme State Security Criminal Court, headed by Judge Hasan Fareed, will resume the trial of 86 Muslim Brotherhood supporters over charges of taking part in a gathering that threatened public peace, showing force, threatening to use violence, murder, attempted murder, damaging public and private property and assaulting police during riots that took place near Kafr al-Sheikh police station.

Cairo Court for Urgent Matters in Abdeen, headed by Judge Kareem Hazem, issued a verdict on Wednesday that the court had no jurisdiction in the lawsuit that demanded to consider the State of Qatar as a country that supports terrorism, Youm7 reported.

Cairo Criminal Court jailed Islamist Jihadist Adel Habara on Tuesday for two years for insulting judiciary during a hearing in which he repeated phrases disagreeing with the court, according to Al-Mogaz.

Shubra Criminal Court postponed Wednesday the trial of Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie to May 10 in order to hear the defense in the “Qalyub Highway case”, Youm7 reported.

A senior member of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said on Monday that the movement had not selected an acting supreme guide, while its current supreme guide, Mohamed Badie, remains detained pending several trials.

A source close to Egyptian presidential candidate Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has disclosed details of two failed assassination attempts against the former army chief in the weeks that followed the ouster of elected president Mohamed Morsi last July.

Cairo Criminal Court decided Tuesday to postpone the trial of former President Mohamed Morsi and several Muslim Brotherhood leaders to May 17 over charges of espionage.

Al-Nour Party Chairman Younes Makhioun met with the prosecutor general Sunday to follow up on interim President Adly Mansour’s pledge to review the legal cases of people who “were wrongly arrested and detained”, according to a party statement.

Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II said on Sunday that the church would not support either candidate in the country's upcoming presidential race.

Sources close to the Muslim Brotherhood said that Qatar has started carrying out the Riyadh agreement which stipulates the country must expel the Brotherhood figures, adding that some of them has already left Doha.

"Yes. Just like this," El Sisi said in answering a question by Ibrahim Issa on whether people should vote for him for president on the basis that he will finish the muslim brotherhood as a group.

A radical Islamist group claimed responsibility on Sunday for two suicide bombings which killed a soldier and wounded at least eight other people near the Egyptian tourist city of Sharm El-Sheikh on Friday.

More than 100 supporters of Egypt's deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi were sentenced to ten years in jail on Saturday on charges of killing and inciting violence, judicial sources said.