Coptic Orthodox Church demanded a permit to build a new church at New Tiba, Luxor. The new city has more than 625 families while there is no church for them to pray.
The leader of the Strong Egypt Party criticised the social and political situation in the country on Thursday, stressing his belief that the government’s intention is to bring an end to what it is left of the 25 January Revolution. According to a report in Almesryoon.com, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh is hoping that the Egyptians will start a new “intifada”.
The Egyptian-Sudanese dispute over the sovereignty of the Halayeb Triangle will be solved “amicably,” undersecretary at the Sudanese Foreign Ministry Abdel Ghani Naeem said Friday.
Damietta border guards arrested 232 unregistered migrants of different nationalities before illegally leaving the country in a fishing boat, Youm7 reported Saturday.
THE first Coptic Church in Australia would cost $2.3 million to refurbish and instead will be demolished by Marrickville Council.
The second day of parliamentary elections in Qena witnessed more violation for the law by al-Nour ultra conservative party.
President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi has called on the Egyptians to flock to polling stations and vote in large numbers in the 2015 parliamentary elections that will kick off in Egypt Sunday.
Several streets and schools in the Cairo were renamed after victims of policemen and military personnel who were killed in bombings and deadly attacks during Egypt’s political turmoil, Youm7 reported.
The Saudi Foreign Ministry has warned its citizens against any financial dealings with Egyptian nationals without coordinating with the saudi diplomatic staff in Cairo, following the recent murder of a Saudi woman and her daughter, Kuwaiti newspaper AlRai reported Saturday.
The Ministry of Antiquities lost 90 percent of its financial resources and is running a “huge deficit”, said Minister of Antiquities Mamdouh al-Damati at a press conference in Kafr El-Sheikh.
Father Boulos Halim, spokesperson for the Coptic Orthodox Church, said the Coptic Orthodox Church in Britain was separated from the Patriarchate of Alexandria.
A new treatment regimen for hepatitis C is expected to hit the Egyptian market in November, in what the Ministry of Health has dubbed the “second generation of treatment,” Youm7 reported Saturday.
Egypt signed a deal with France Saturday to buy two Mistral warships originally ordered by Russia as French Prime Minister Manuel Valls began an Arab tour.
Sheikh Khalid al-Khader, Undersecretary of the Endowments Ministry in Qena, invited all citizens to participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections by voting.
Yasmine el-Narsh, 40, who was the subject of a recent viral video in which she was insulting and beating a police officer at Cairo airport, was sentenced Saturday to four years in prison.
Culture Minister Helmy al-Namnam has reiterated his opposition to religious influence on politics and society, stating that Egypt is “instinctively secular”.
Police in Beheira arrested five supporters of former president Mohamed Morsi during a march organized by supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi will start an official two-day visit to Cairo Sunday to discuss bilateral relations between the countries, an official source within Egypt's foreign ministry told Aswat Masriya Saturday.
A bomb killed two conscripts and injured 16 others in al-Arish in northern Sinai on Saturday morning, Egypt's Interior Ministry said.
President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi called for an international solution to end escalating attacks on the Al-Aqsa mosque in a Saturday meeting with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas in New York City, the presidency announced.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi met Friday in New York German Chancellor Angela Merkel during the meetings of the UN General Assembly. The two discussed bilateral relations and the latest developments in Egypt, the Egyptian presidency said.
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