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.

Coptic Patriarch, Pope Tawadros II inaugurated Tuesday a conference for Egyptian priests in the Gulf states and their wives in St. Bishoy Monastery, Youm7 reported.

A number of Coptic Diaspora has protested outside U.S. white House, against violence practices against Coptic Christians in Upper Egypt’s Minya, Youm7 reported. Their protest is an act of defiance against Pope Tawadros II, who called for not staging any protests.

Churches building law is composed on eight articles, as seven articles organize the building and renovation of churches, while one article is to legalize existing churches, said representative of Egypt’s Catholic Church Gameel Halim on Tuesday.

Opinion in parliament has split over a Citizenship bill presented by MP Alaa Abdel Moneim containing an article abolishing the listing of citizens' religion on national ID cards, to be discussed next Saturday.

Coptic Patriarch Pope Tawadros expressed his refusal to the demonstrations scheduled to be organized by Copts before the U.S White House on Tuesday.

Coptic Pope Tawadros II met with Ethiopian ecclesiastical delegation, headed by Secretary of Ethiopian Church’s Holy Synod Bishop Lukas, on Monday in Cairo’s St. Mark Cathedral, Youm7 reported.

Muslim Brotherhood (MB) was not prepared for participating in the presidential elections held in 2012, said MB leading member Yasser Ali on Sunday

Coptic Orthodox Church’s Bishop Paula of Tanta signed the final draft of churches building law on Monday, said Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Magdy Al-Agaty.