Luxor court sentenced killer of Coptic lawyer and her daughter to death penalty.

Egypt signed with the World Bank Friday a $400 million agreement for a project set to benefit 1.5 million poor Egyptian families.

The long-awaited re-amendment of the electoral constituencies law, the last obstacle in the way of Egypt's long-delayed parliamentary polls, was approved by the cabinet on 14 April.

As the armed clashes between ISIS and Peshmerga forces, priests and nuns in Iraq refuse o abandon their homeland even if they have to die.

Luxor Criminal Court postponed trial of killers of Copts in Dabia village. 48 defendants were accused of attacking the Copts, burning and looting their houses and properties.

Dr. Hoda Badran, head of the General Union of Women of Egypt, expressed her support and he Union for the call of Dr. Sheriff Shobashi to take off the veil by Egyptian women in a demonstration in Tahrir Square.

National Security police announced to arrests 108 leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood. Defendants face charges with targeting police and army officers, and planning for terrorist attacks against public and private properties.

Pope Francis described the 1915 mass killings of Armenians by Turks as the “first genocide of the 20th century” on Sunday, touching off a diplomatic furor with Turkey and entering into a tense historical debate with wider implications for the Vatican’s relations with Islam.

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark See, celebrated Easter in the monastery of St. Mary known as the Syriac monastery among members of the Holy Synod and the Coptic congregation.

In security crackdown, Police have seized 61 tons of corrupted salted fish unfit for human consumption. This came as Egyptians celebrate Easter feasts as well as the Egyptian feast of Sham el-Nessim, in which Egyptian follow a tradition to eat such saluted fish.

For eh fifth time, the province of Minya held a customary reconciliation session to build a church at Galaa village.

The Copts of Toleihat village spent the Easter at their houses fearing the attacks of the fanatics. This came after they refused to allow the Copts to hold the celebration at a house owned by one of them.

Two homemade bombs exploded in front of the Evangelical Church and the Church of St. Joseph in Zagazig city at Sharqia province, causing damage to several vehicles without causing injuries.

Alaa and Gamal Mubarak made their first public appearance on Friday since their release late January, pending a retrial over charges of misusing public funds.

An Egyptian court has confirmed the death sentence on Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie and 13 others for planning attacks against the state.

Egyptian cabinet headed by the Prime Minister decided today to allocate an additional 30 acres to the new building of the Cathedral in New Cairo.

Samuel Tharwat, lawyers of Michael Mounir, said the attorney general decided to transfer the case to the Criminal Court.