The Giza Criminal Court sentenced on Wednesday 71 defendants to life in prison for breaking into a church in Kerdasa and torching it in August 2013, reported the state agency MENA.

The case of a 15-year-old Muslim girl who was banned from class twice for wearing a long black skirt seen as too openly religious for secular France has sparked an outcry.

Ten female students charged in 2013 riots at Al-Azhar University will be released after serving a period exceeding the terms they received Wednesday; they have been fined 216,000 EGP each ($28,300) in compensation for major damage to the facility, Youm7 reported.

A picture of a bruised face with a black posted on Facebook Monday conveyed Nehal Kamal’s message regarding her decision to take off her traditional headscarf, arguing that Egyptian women are not really free to take off their hijab.

Saudi Arabia has arrested 93 people suspected of belonging to the Sunni Muslim militant group Islamic State, including at least 65 Saudi nationals, the interior ministry said in a statement carried on the official Saudi Press Agency on Tuesday.

Leila Attia Isaac, a Coptic Church lawyer, filed an appeal on Tuesday to the Supreme Administrative Court to challenge the verdict obliging the Church to allow the remarriage of Hani Wasfi Demian, a Coptic Christian.

The Cairo Criminal Court decided on Tuesday to postpone the trial of deposed President Mohamed Morsi and 10 other leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood accused of leaking to Qatar documents issued by sovereign state institutions and by the presidency.

A military aircraft crashed in the Mazar area in west Arish Tuesday, in a deserted area, eye witnesses told Youm7.

The Bedouin Tarabin tribe, one of the biggest extended tribes in Egypt, has attacked suspected hotbeds Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis in southern Rafah of North Sinai, Youm7 reported Monday.

Boko Haram gunmen massacred residents who tried to jump into Lake Chad seeking safety and burnt others alive after overpowering soldiers in a weekend attack in the restive region, a witness said Monday.

A military court in the seaport city of Suez sentenced four people affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood to life in prison in absentia on Monday.

Security sources in North Sinai announced on Monday that nine militants allegedly belonging to Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, a terrorist group active in North Sinai, were killed during a crackdown by the armed forces and police in south Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah.

A military court in Suez on Monday sentenced eight Brotherhood members in absentia to 15 years in prison as well as life imprisonment for inciting riots and violence.

International rights watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused the Egyptian authorities of carrying out an unfair trial against former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, in a statement it published on Sunday.

Is there hope? Here we are just a few weeks following the celebration of our Lord’s glorious resurrection,​ and we are struggling. The media is still reporting genocide. Christians from different countries are being beheaded, raped​,​ and thrown overboard for their conviction to their faith. We are saddened​,​ and they are dying. Various Christian leaders are heralding ​that ​we have reached the end times. The future of Christianity seems so very bleak.

Some 17 alleged takfiris (hard-line Islamists) were killed in an attack by a military plane against militants on the desert road south of Sheikh Zuwayed, North Sinai, Youm7 reported Sunday.

Four people were killed in an explosion on Saturday at a makeshift farm building in Beni Suef governorate in Egypt in what police said was a bomb-making operation gone wrong.

Islamist rebels in Syria have taken over the key north-western town of Jisr al-Shughur, activists say. It was the last major town under government control in Idlib province. Correspondents say it may give rebels a route to the ruling elite's heartland.

Pope Tawadros II and a number of church leaders have participated in an Armenian genocide centenary conference held in the capital Yerevan entitled “Remember and Demand”.

Yasser Borhamy, vice president of the Salafi Dawah, addressed a YouTube video circulating online of an Egyptian woman verbally attacking the mufti at the Egyptian embassy in the Netherlands, calling it an act of insolence.

Cairo governor Galal Saeed attended the restoration of the Mar Girgis Monastery ceremony in Old Cairo Thursday, acting for President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, Youm7 reported.