Security forces, backed by army troops, dispersed sectarian clashes between Christians and Muslims in a Minya village late Wednesday.

Human Rights Watch has urged the Egyptian authorities to act to protect churches and religious institutions which have been under attack since the country's interim government began its crackdown on Islamists on August 14.

Amjad Qourshah, an Islamic studies professor at the University of Amman in Jordan with ties to the Muslim American Society (MAS) and the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), has unleashed a tirade of anti-Christian venom against Egypt’s Copts, accusing them of burning their own churches.

Copts whose church was one of dozens destroyed by Muslim Brotherhood supporters have returned to the charred house of worship, with their pastor vowing the violence suffered by his flock will make them "better Christians."

Palestinian Islamist group Hamas urged Egypt on Wednesday to reopen the border crossing with the Gaza Strip that was closed after a suspected militant attack on Egyptian policemen near the frontier earlier this week.

A security source from the interior ministry said on Wednesday that Islamic preacher Safwat Hegazi has been sent to Torrah Prison.

Several of Egypt’s Coptic Christian churches canceled Mass services last Sunday for the first time in more than 1,600 years amid the unprecedented wave violence against them.

The call for revenge raced through this village southwest of the capital and echoed from the loudspeakers of mosques last week as the military invaded two protest camps in Cairo, killing hundreds of supporters of the deposed president, Mohammed Morsi.

The Muslim Brotherhood's supreme guide, Mohamed Badie, has denied a litany of charges he faced after being arrested in a Nasr City apartment early Tuesday.

The Muslim Brotherhood announced Mahmoud Ezzat as its temporary leader on Tuesday following the arrest of its Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) on Tuesday denied that an acting Supreme Guide was chosen following Mohamed Badie’s arrest on Monday.

The Muslim Brotherhood's supreme guide, Mohamed Badie, has denied a litany of charges he faced after being arrested in a Nasr City apartment early Tuesday.

The National Salvation Front (NSF) condemned the deaths of 26 soldiers in North Sinai by an armed group and announced that “terrorism” is part of the “war” the Muslim Brotherhood declared on Egypt in a released statement on Tuesday.

The Popular Current staged protests in France and Canada on Sunday to denounce what it described as Western support of the Muslim Brotherhood and failure to back the Egyptian army's counter-terrorism efforts.

Egypt's prosecution on Monday ordered the detention of 255 members of the Muslim Brotherhood pending investigations of a range of allegations, including murder, attempted murder, thuggery, vandalism and arson.

Egypt's National Coalition to Support Legitimacy – led by the Muslim Brotherhood – has called for rallies on Monday demanding the reinstatement of ousted president Mohamed Morsi.

A leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party, was arrested on Sunday.

Muslim Brotherhood bank assets could be susceptible to freezing if interim authorities decide to dissolve the group, Anadolu Agency quoted bankers as saying.

CAIRO — Just two years ago, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood won the country’s first free elections, but now many in the country call its supporters “terrorists.”

The Salafist Nour Party demanded that the criteria set by the presidency last week for selecting the 50-member committee which will finalise amendments to the suspended 2012 constitution be revised.

The Council of Egyptian Churches rejected foreign interference in domestic affairs in a statement issued on Saturday evening.