The US State Department has said that Egyptian Coptic Christians still face enormous challenges, though stated that President-Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has made efforts to protect the country's largest minority, according to its 2015 Annual Report on International Freedom released on Wednesday.

Egyptian church performs a major role to cooperate with the African countries and especially the Nile Basin countries, said MP Abdel-Rehim Ali on Wednesday.

Dar al-Ifta, an official body that provides guidance on Islamic law, has condemned extremist groups for conducting smear campaigns against public figures and scientists, particularly when they involve allegations of apostacy.

Morocco's state news agency says a man who attacked a mosque in the Moroccan city of Tetouan has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of an imam.

Egyptian MP Mahmoud Al-Saidy called for establishing an economic authority to receive the zakat funs and other religious donations instead of mosques, Youm7 reported.

Writer Kamal Zakher told Youm7 that a draft law that regulates churches construction “does not fulfill Copts’ ambitions.”

MP Magdy Melek rebuked the parliamentary decision to refer the churches building law to the religious committee, saying that such a law should be discussed by the legislative committee not the religious one, Youm7 reported on Monday.

Parliament’s religious committee recommended generalizing the churches building law to include all worship places in Egypt, Youm7 reported on Monday.

A new fatwa issued by Salafist leader Yasser Borhami banning lottery prizes and describing them as a kind of gambling, Youm7 reported on Monday.

Parliamentary religious committee started its meeting to discuss the churches building law on Monday, said the committee’s chairman Osama Al-Abd.

Families of Egyptian Copts who were kidnapped in Libya have delayed their protest Sunday until they receive official police permit in accordance to the 2013 Protest Law.

Egypt’s former Mufti, Ali Gomaa, said he escaped an assassination attempt after four “terrorists” opened fire while he was heading to the mosque for Friday prayer.

Egypt’s former Mufti has deep relations with fathallah gülen’s group accused of standing behind the failure coup against Turkish President Ragab Tayeb Erdogan last month, said Chairman of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Mohamed Gormaz.

Egypt's former leading Muslim cleric, Ali Gomaa, has escaped unharmed from an apparent assassination attempt in Cairo, state television reported on Friday morning.

Saudi Arabia's most senior cleric has urged businessmen and banks to set up a fund to help soldiers stationed along the southern border with Yemen to pay their bills back home, Saudi media reported on Thursday.

Egypt's top Muslim clerics said Wednesday that an academy specialised in training preachers will be set up as part of the government's campaign against religious extremism, seemingly paving the way for the revoking of recent controversial measures to standardise sermons at Friday prayers.

Egypt's top Muslim clerics said Wednesday that an academy specialised in training preachers will be set up as part of the government's campaign against religious extremism, possibly paving the way for the revoking of recent controversial measures to standardise sermons at Friday prayers.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi’s meeting with Al-Azhar’ Grand Imam Ahmed Al-Tayeb will end the current tension between the Islamic institution and Endowment Ministry during the coming period, said Islamic Research Academy’s member Mohamed Al-Gendy.

Egyptian Parliamentarian Elizabeth Abdel-Massih praised the churches building draft law, describing it as good law to resolve one of the most critical issues threatening Egypt, Youm7 reported on Thursday.

Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayeb stressed the necessity of coordination on the selection of sermons topics to address the society's needs in a meeting with the minister of religious endowments Mohamed Mokhar Gomaa and Egypt's grand mufti Shawki Allam, state news agency MENA reported.

Minister of Antiquities Khaled Anani will inaugurate St. Abanoub Coptic Orthodox Church in Samanoud, Nile Delta’s Gharbia, on Saturday, Youm7 reported Wednesday.