Trial proceedings in the case of Egyptian Islamist preacher Abu Islam Ahmed Abdullah, who faces charges of defaming the Christian faith by burning copies of the New Testament in front of the US embassy in mid-September, have been adjourned to 14 October.

The Salafi Dawah board expressed support Saturday for the supreme authority of the Salafi Nour Party's decision to withdraw confidence in embattled party president Emad Abdel Ghafour.

Candidates of the Construction and Development Party, the political arm of Jama’a al-Islamiya, will run in the upcoming parliamentary elections on independent lists, party leaders told Al-Masry Al-Youm Sunday.

The Maspero Youth Union, a coalition of young Coptic Christian activists, issued a statement on Friday condemning what it described as "forced displacement" of nine Christian families from the city of Rafah in North Sinai. The group stated that the situation was a clear violation of the rights of Egyptian Christians and was in defiance of state sovereignty.

Popular Salafist preacher Yasser Borhamy confirmed in a media statement Friday that the meeting which he was blamed for attending, with former presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq, was part of an initiative made by El-Nour Party to mediate between different groups.

Political parties, the Al-Azhar and the Coptic Church, in a meeting held at the Shura Council on Tuesday managed to resolve disputes

On Friday, March 30, 2012, Hisham Y. Altalib visited the White House

An actress who said she was duped into appearing in an anti-Islam film

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi said he the Egyptian Muslim cleric jailed in the Unites States, to serve out the rest of his sentence at home

An Egyptian court has upheld a six-year jail sentence for a Coptic Christian school teacher

Egypt's FJP is consulting with other political parties and the financial industry introducing rules allowing the issue of sukuk

After the outbreak of the January 2011 revolution, the Interior Ministry began a new era based on respect for fundamental freedoms

Outspoken Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahaway was arrested

An Egyptian newspaper released a 12-page special section for the purpose of ‘confronting thought with thought’

The dispute between Coptic and secular activists on one hand and Islamist political forces on the other ended in compromise.

A Coptic Christian group has rejected a report by Egypt's official statistics agency which estimated the community's population at 5.13 million.

Constituent Assembly member Manal al-Tiby resigned on Monday to protest what she described as “the dominance of political Islam over the assembly.”

With Egypt turning into a Sunni Iran, we’re probably only a few years away from people like Fawzy being targeted with international murde

International envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi presented a pessimistic forecast for Syria

Supporters of jailed Coptic Christian Alber Saber accused the Egyptian government of pursuing a double standard

Should the principles of free speech apply when it comes to insulting Islam?