Al-Azhar, Egypt's leading seat of Islamic learning, is planning to launch its own television channel. The channel will promote a moderate version of Islam, Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayyeb said on Thursday. It will be trialed in July to coincide with Ramadan and will feature social, cultural and historical programmes alongside its main religious content, El-Tayyeb said.

Governor of Egypt’s Central Bank Hisham Ramez said that he is unaware of the government’s plans to issue Islamic bonds (sukuk) worth $12 billion by next year’s outset, reported Al-Ahram’s Arabic-language website on Thursday.

A north Cairo court on Thursday ordered the release of seven people who had been arrested for suspected involvement in April clashes outside St Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo. The suspects have been released from police custody with bail set at LE2000 each.

Head of the Islamist Wasat Party Essam Sultan, a former MP, was released on bail on Wednesday. On Tuesday, prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for Sultan and requested that the political immunity of Muslim Brotherhood Shura Council member Sobhi Saleh be lifted, so that the pair could be investigated on allegations that they had insulted the judiciary.

An Egyptian misdemeanors court on Wednesday fined controversial preacher Khaled Abdullah LE10,000 – and slapped him with a three-year suspended jail sentence – for slandering and defaming Egyptian actress Hala Fakher.

The new Egyptian constitution is based on discrimination, speakers at Al-Tayar Al-Shaaby’s conference on national harmony said on Wednesday.

Yosri Hammad, chairman of the Salafist Watan Party, has said that a court decision granting members of the army and the police the right to vote should be put to referendum by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.

Two prominent politicians are being investigated by prosecutors on allegations of insulting the judiciary.

Hamdeen Sabbahi, former Egyptian presidential candidate, stated that the current Egyptian regime seeks to dismantle national unity and the Church.

Air of uncertainty is engulfing most matters related to Egypt. Since the Egyptian revolt started over two years ago, the country remains hostage to a barefaced power struggle with many destructive implications that have polarized society in unprecedented ways, perhaps in all of Egypt’s modern history. And while in Egypt itself nothing is sacred and no one is safe from the massive campaigns of defamation, demonization and sheer lies that each political camp is launching against the other, Palestinians find themselves in a most precarious position.

The Supreme Constitutional Court's ruling on the constitutionality of several articles of the parliamentary elections law will postpone the elections to next year, sources from the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Freedom and Justice Party, and from the Salafi-oriented Nour Party said on Sunday.

Egypt's Salafist Watan Party on Monday denied that party chairman Emad Abdel-Ghafour had granted any interviews to the Israeli press, insisting that recent media reports to this effect were "false."

Essam El-Erian, a leading member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, has accused a former senior member of the Palestinian Fatah movement of plotting to undermine security in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.

CAIRO — Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on Saturday against parts of an election law approved by the Islamist-led legislature that had lifted a long-standing ban on the use of religious slogans during campaigning.

DEAD SEA, Jordan — A Salafist adviser to Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi said Sunday that he “had no problem” with the Camp David Peace Accords between Israel and Egypt, but added that the number of Egyptian soldiers allowed to enter the Sinai Peninsula under the agreement must be increased.

The Muslim Brotherhood condemned on Saturday the Iranian intervention in Syria through “Hezbollah militias”.

Britain’s national security chiefs met on Thursday as counter-terrorism police investigated the murder of a soldier who was hacked to death in a London street by two suspected Islamic extremists.

Salafi jihadist groups denied any responsibility for the kidnapping of the seven soldiers being held hostage in Sinai.

Libyan authorities on Wednesday deported 238 Egyptian workers, including 28 fishermen, claiming that they had entered the country illegally.

Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmad Al-Tayeb announced that Al-Azhar will be sending out convoys throughout Egypt to spread moderate Islamic thought, and to right misconceptions and destructive beliefs, particularly in regards to violence and extremism.

CAIRO, May 22 (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced four men on Wednesday to death by hanging for the 2011 killing of a Coptic Christian priest in his apartment in the southern city of Assiut, state news agency MENA reported.