Fear and worry has driven many Coptic Christians to leave Egypt, Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II said in a recorded interview aired on Hayat satellite channel on Saturday.

The Egyptian embassy in Yemen secured the release of a young Egyptian citizen who was forcibly detained in the home of her family in Aden. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the girl’s family attempted to force her to marry a relative.

In an official statement Saturday, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt held the Iraqi government responsible for ongoing violence, and called on all parties in Iraq to seek dialogue and reconciliation, unity and construction.

A Hamas official has denied Egyptian media reports claiming that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood coordinated its operations with Hamas during the first days of the popular uprising in January 2011.

Deputy Chairman of the Freedom and Justice Party Essam El-Erian was handed a three year suspended sentence and fined EGP 15,000 by the First Sixth of October Misdemeanours Court in a slander and defamation lawsuit filed by television presenter Jihan Mansour.

One of Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya’s leading figures, Assem Abdel Maged, announced his resignation from the group on Friday.

The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party and several Islamist parties will postpone a million-man demonstration which was planned for Friday April 26.

Al-Azhar’s Council of Senior Scholars submitted its objections to the new sukuk law to the Economic Committee at the Shura Council, Tuesday.

Pope Francis called Wednesday for the release of two Syrian bishops kidnapped by gunmen near Aleppo, after a Christian group appeared to retract its claim that the clerics had been freed.

Egypt's biggest hardline Islamist Salafi party will not take up posts in a cabinet reshuffle expected next week, saying on Thursday that the proposed changes did not go far enough to fix the country's political crisis.

An Israeli citizen imprisoned for 12 years in Egypt on charges of spying, announced that he has begun a hunger strike in protestof the lack of measures taken to ensure his release, Israel Radio reported Wednesday.

Representatives of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church met with a top interior ministry official and representatives of a number of political groups in an effort to contain possible unrest caused by the disappearance of a Muslim woman from Upper Egypt, who allegedly converted to Christianity and fled to Turkey with an Egyptian Christian.

Suhaib Abdel-Maksoud, spokesman for Muslim Brotherhood students, paid tribute to all Egypt’s students, who participated positively in union elections.

The Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria Tawadros II will meet Pope Francis next month in the Vatican -- the first visit by a Coptic Orthodox leader in 40 years and the latest signs of growing ties between the new pope and the Orthodox world.

Calls from Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir for Muslims to boycott Anzac Day as British colonialist aggression against the Ottoman empire drew howls of outrage yesterday from political leaders, and were rejected by moderate Muslim groups.

The World Council of Churches general secretary, Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit, has met with senior Egyptin Islamic cleric Grand Mufti Shawki Ibrahim Abdel-Karim in Cairo to discuss relations between different faiths in the North African country that experienced a revolution in February 2011.

Cairo’s streets have been swept by a campaign showing disapproval of the Muslim Brotherhood through honking automobile horns.

Influential Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi boycotted the 8th Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue conference in Doha on Tuesday, rejecting to sit in the meeting also attended by Jewish representatives, a local daily reported.

The fact-finding committee of the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) issued a report on the recent clashes at St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Abbaseya.

An Egyptian appeal judge has ordered the release of 30 individuals, including one US and one Syrian national, detained in Friday's protest in Cairo against Egypt's judiciary.

The British government and leaders within the Coptic Orthodox community in London met to discuss the recent sectarian violence in Egypt, Ahram Online has learned. According to a Coptic activist who attended the meeting, the discussion focused on “the escalation of attacks on Copts in Egypt.”