Al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri called upon jihadists across the globe to reject the Islamic State and instead support the Afghan Taliban in a video released Sunday.

Egypt’s Orthodox Church released a statement objecting to the “complexities and obstacles” in the governmental amendments to a long-awaited bill on church building in the country, privately-owned Al-Shorouk reported.

Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip launched a rocket that landed in the Israeli border town of Sderot on Sunday and Israeli aircraft and tanks responded by shelling the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, the army and police said.

State-run newspaper Al-Ahram published on Sunday a report accusing the BBC of being part of a conspiracy against Egypt that aims to harm the country’s tourism sector.

The first three-day forum of Muslim- Christian Youth will kick off Friday in Al Azhar Sheikhdom, in cooperation with the World Council of Churches. The forum will be participated by 40 Muslim and Christian youths from 14 countries, Youm7 reported.

The current draft of churches building law would lead to major problems with the Salafists, said the Coptic Church’s lawyer Ehab Ramzy.

Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church and the Evangelical Church issued statements on Thursday slamming proposed amendments to the long-awaited church building draft law after Church officials met with state representatives on Wednesday at the cabinet headquarters.

Hostility is escalating and against the Muslims in the United since the beginning og the U.S. presidential race due to presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s remarks against the Muslims, said Al Azhar Observer Thursday.

Egypt’s affiliate of the Islamic State group has confirmed the death of its chief, which comes two weeks after the military announced the killing during an operation in the North Sinai.

Egypt is scheduled to vote as early as next month on a law that would ease the country’s historic restrictions on church construction.

The Egyptian government has restored and rebuilt 70 percent of churches and Christian institutions damaged after the dispersal of the 2013 sit-ins at the Rabaa and Nahda squares, the state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram reported on Wednesday.

The world’s highest seat of Sunni Islam, Egypt’s Al-Azhar, strongly condemned on Wednesday the recurrent storming by Israeli settlers of Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem this week, state news agency MENA reported.

“A culture of religious discrimination is widespread as authorities keep turning their backs on the threats facing Copts in Egypt,” said a statement issued by the independent group Egyptians Against Religious Discrimination, which was read out by its founder Mounir Megahed in a Sunday press conference.

Al-Qaida’s terrorist-in-chief used his public video address to lambaste members of Egypt’s radical Muslim Brotherhood.

The German government has accused Turkey of being a hub for Islamist groups that allows them to further their aims across the Middle East, according to a leaked confidential document.

Ahmed al-Moghir, a fugitive member of the Muslim Brotherhood, has published a statement online claiming that Brotherhood members at the Rabaa al-Adaweya sit-in were heavily armed.

As the third anniversary of the violent dispersal of pro-Mohamed Morsi sit-ins passed quietly without protests or any commemoration events in the streets of Egypt, the currently outlawed Muslim Brotherhood maintained in several statements by its leaders that it will continue its “peaceful revolutionary mobalisation”.

Giza security services launched raids on Sunday targeting eight locations in the areas of Kerdasa, Nahya, al-Haram and 6th of October City, to arrest criminals involved in the attempted assassination of former grand Mufti Ali Gomaa earlier this month.

Egypt's Dar Al-Ifta – the state Islamic authority charged with issuing religious edicts – said recent remarks by the once-ruling Muslim Brotherhood make clear that the movement's "thirst for power" is behind its actions and statements.

Al-Azhar, the highest seat of Sunni Islam, condemned Sunday an attack on a New York City mosque in which an Imam was killed, calling on American authorities to "protect places of worship and respect [their] sanctity."

A group of activists and MPs staged a protest at Dar al-Qadaa al-Ali, a prominent judicial institution in downtown Cairo, Saturday, against sectarian violence in Minya governorate.