The Independent Teachers Syndicate has accused the Education Ministry of "Brotherhoodizing" education, dismissing the ministry's media statements saying it is trying to reduce corruption and expenditures.

The official Facebook Page of the Egyptian armed forces spokesperson, Colonel Ahmed Ali, has announced on Monday that forces "have foiled an attempt to bomb the Rafah Church in North Sinai."

Coptic Pope Tawadros II expressed hope Sunday that God would protect Egypt and President Mohamed Morsy and prayed that the country’s affairs would be managed wisely.

Shura Council majority leader Essam al-Erian agreed with the presidential office Sunday to leave the president’s advisory board.

A peaceful and jovial man is the first impression visitors have of Baki Zaki Youssef, a retired military engineer whose name is forever associated with one of Egypt’s moments of glory: the fall of the Israeli Bar Lev Line defences on the first day of the 1973 6 October War.

Jama’a al-Islamiya is seeking to form an electoral alliance between liberals and Islamists for the next parliamentary elections.

Pope Tawadros II of the Coptic Orthodox Church said he rejects calls for partitioning Egypt and forming a Coptic state within the country, an idea allegedly floated recently by some members of the diaspora.

Egyptian Grand Mufti Sheikh Ali Gomaa has released a new book in English entitled Master of Excellence

Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark Diocese received on Wednesday 2/1/2013 two delegations of Al-Azhar

A radical faction within Egypt's most conservative Islamist party is breaking away

Egypt's Coptic Christians are facing an uncertain future, as they prepare to celebrate Christmas on 7 January

A leading Muslim Brotherhood member and adviser to Islamist President Mohammed Morsi created a stir in Egypt

Cyprus apologized to the Egyptian ambassador on Wednesday after a fracas with police

Members of the Islamic Research Academy, one of Al-Azhar's affliated institutes, say they reject a bill on Islamic bonds (sukuk) recently approved by Egypt’s Cabinet.

A Shura Council youth committee member said Wdnesday that Mohamed Morsy is the right man for president, and that God chose him for president before the people did.

The Shura Council’s financial and economic affairs committee has endorsed the Islamic Research Academy’s rejection of the Finance Ministry's proposal for Islamic bonds.

Salafi Preacher Abdullah Badr said he will not be making any more media appearances, and will instead focus solely on preaching.

Egyptian security officials say a former sergeant in the Israeli army has been ordered detained

Reports from Beirut suggest Egypt will seek to increase ties with the Iranian-backed Hezbollah

It was a mixed bag for the Coptic Christians of Egypt this year

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi believes that allegations about the Muslim Brotherhood directly supporting its political arm in Kuwait were offensive to Kuwaiti people