The Qalyubiya Prosecution released on Wednesday two minors believed to have triggered fatal sectarian clashes in Khosous when they painted a crooked cross on the walls of an Islamic school run by Al-Azhar.

The Coptic Orthodox Church has identified five demands for President Mohamed Morsy to resolve the sectarian crises that have erupted in various parts of the country.

The leader of Egypt's Coptic Christians, Pope Tawadros II, has accused President Mohammed Morsi of "negligence" following deadly violence outside the main cathedral in Cairo.

An Egyptian Muslim cleric known as "the preacher of the revolution" for his sermons in Tahrir Square has been suspended following complaints of his criticism of President Mohammed Morsi, while the popular satirist Bassem Youssef faces new allegations of "insulting Pakistan."

Four days have passed since the violence that disrupted the town of Al-Khosous, home for Copts and Muslims in Egypt's governorate of Qalyubia who say they have never seen sectarian strife.

A disturbing video uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday shows what appears to be an angry Muslim crowd in Upper Egypt beating and stripping two Coptic Christian women in broad daylight in a rural area.

Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II criticised President Morsi’s handling of recent sectarian violence which has left several Egyptians dead in the last 4 days.

One person was killed and 14 injured in clashes between protesters and police forces at Mar Girgis Church in Qalioubiya, north of Cairo, late Sunday.

The Egyptian presidency on Tuesday blamed Coptic youths for starting fights outside St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral with residents of the nearby Abbasseya district during a funeral Sunday.

Dozens of members of Egypt's Maspero Youth Union in Alexandria staged protests against sectarianism at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina while independent protesters staged simultaneous demonstrations at St. Mark's Coptic Cathedral in Cairo's Abbasiya district.

An open-ended sit-in was staged on Monday 8 April afternoon at the Shura Council by a number of council members, mainly from liberal and leftist parties, in protest at the sectarian clashes and attacks that took place at Al-Khosous in Qalioubiya Governorate and at Saint Mark's Cathedral in Cairo over the last two days.

The United States Embassy has condemned the violence that broke out in Cairo on Sunday outside the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral and the clashes that led to them in Qalyubiya on Friday.

A few streets down from a crowded local mosque in the affluent satellite suburb of 6th of October City, Abu Ramez proudly stacks Egyptian beer and wine onto the shelves of his supermarket, Bazaar al-Gamaa.

Deputy founder of the nascent Salafi Watan Party and presidential assistant Emad Abdel Ghafour announced the establishment of the party on 1 December after resigning from the presidency of the Nour Party, the political arm of the Salafi Dawah.

On 2 April 1968, tens of thousands of Egyptians, Muslims and Christians alike, congregated to see the Virgin Mary appear above a Coptic Orthodox Church in Zeitoun.

A sense of panic quickly spread among mourners as they prepared to leave Cairo's main Coptic cathedral on Sunday afternoon. Young men ran in and out of the church telling funeral attendees to beware of unknown assailants outside pelting mourners with rocks.

The injury toll from Sunday's cathedral clashes in Cairo stand at 21, according to Egypt's health ministry. Clashes erupted on Sunday afternoon outside the main Coptic cathedral in Cairo's Abbasiya district as hundreds of mourners held a funeral for victims of Saturday's sectarian clashes in the capital's Qalioubiya governorate.

Coptic Pope Tawadros II called for calm among all parties to preserve the nation’s safety, Egyptians’ lives and national unity Sunday evening, after one person was reported dead and 29 injured in clashes at a Cairo cathedral that broke out after unknown assailants attacked a funeral.

Clashes broke out between Coptic Christians and Muslims in central Cairo on Sunday after the funeral of four Copts killed in sectarian violence outside the Egyptian capital on Friday night, a witness said.

The Virgin Mary church in Zeitoun apologised on Wednesday to journalists allegedly assaulted while covering Pope Tawadros II’s visit to the church on Tuesday.

The Palestinian movement Hamas which rules Gaza has arrested two hardline Islamists in connection with rocket attacks on Israel, sources close to a Salafist group said Thursday.