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.

Presidential spokesperson Ihab Fahmy on Wednesday said that Assistant President for Foreign Affairs Essam al-Haddad’s statements on Facebook about the Coptic Cathedral incident was an account of events and did not accuse Christians of anything.

On Monday, Khairat El-Shater, the strong man of the Muslim Brotherhood, issued a statement on his Facebook page to discredit what he qualified as “rumours and fabricated documents.”

Wasat Party leader Abul-Ela Madi has repeated his claim that the intelligence service had approximately 300,000 'thugs' on its payroll during the Mubarak era.

Student members of the Salafist Raya Party, founded by Egypt's disqualified presidential candidate Hazem Salah Abou-Ismail, issued a statement Wednesday accusing the president of Al-Mansoura University of hiring thugs to use against protests on campus.

CAIRO, April 11 (Reuters) - When Egyptian Christian Kerollos Maher watched on television as petrol bombs and rocks rained on Cairo's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral he had only one thought - emigration.

A 21-year-old man died in a Cairo hospital Thursday after sustaining severe burns over the weekend amid fatal sectarian clashes in the Delta town of Khosous.

Some Sufi Orders fear that upcoming parliamentary elections may be rigged to favor the Muslim Brotherhood, claimed Essam Mohie, Liberation Party secretary general.

Egypt’s presidential spokesman says tourist flights from Iran were not suspended because of pressure from “any particular groups.”

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.