A gunman on Sunday killed prominent Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar outside a court where he was facing charges for sharing a cartoon deemed offensive to Islam, state news agency Petra reported.

The support offered by the Coptic Church to Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Sisi ahead of his trip to the U.S. has been used by Islamists and other opposition groups to criticize the Egyptian leader.

Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood has made a return to parliament after winning 16 seats in the 130-member house, according to results announced Thursday by the country's electoral commission.

The Muslim Brotherhood has forged some unlikely political alliances in its bid to remain relevant in Jordan.

A number of Coptic activists have called on the Coptic Orthodox Church to steer clear of politics and focus on its spiritual role instead, in a statement issued on Monday.

Pope Tawadros II, the head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, said on Tuesday that the Church’s support of President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi's efforts to improve Egypt's image abroad is an act of patriotism, not politics.

MPs from Minya governorate intervened on Monday to calm tensions in the village of Asem, on the outskirts of Minya city, after clashes between Muslims and Christians during Eid al-Adha.

Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church lawyer Munsif Naguib Suleiman said that he will sue those who are shooting or producing a documentary film on the life of Late Pope Shenouda III without getting a prior permission from the church, Youm7 reported Saturday.

The dignity of Egypt is expressed by the dignity and honorable reception of Egypt’s President as His Excellence deserves. Many people can be victimized as a result of wrong and incorrect information fed by the media that publish lies and slanders against the true lives of Egyptians, both Copts and Muslims.

A delegation of the Evangelical Church left Cairo heading to the US Thursday to support Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi during his visit to the United Nations headquarters to attend next week's UN General Assembly.

A long-awaited new law maintains restrictions over the construction and renovation of churches and discriminates against the Christian minority in Egypt, said Human Rights Watch on Thursday.

An Egyptian delegation headed to the US on Tuesday to prepare for the visit of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to New York on Saturday to participate in the 71st session of the General Assembly of the United Nations.

On Thursday 22 September, a guitar and piano duo will give a concert at St John the Baptist Church in Maadi, Cairo.

Two Christians were injured on Monday when violence erupted between Muslims and Christians in a remote Minya village, the local Coptic Orthodox bishop announced on Tuesday.

Parliamentarian Margaret Azer, a member of the Human Rights Committee of Parliament, said that she will finalize a new draft law to amend the punishment of adultery in Egypt’s Penal Code, Youm7 reported Tuesday.

A Cologne imam has said the victims of the New Years Eve mob sex attacks had themselves to blame because they wore perfume.

Chairperson of Copts 38 Association Nader al-Serafi has resigned from the legal committee of the Islamic Sunni and Salafi political party al Nour, he told Youm7 Monday.

Egypt’s interior ministry will have to disclose to prosecutors the results of its investigations into a church bombing in Alexandria in 2011 which killed 23 people, according to a court verdict on Thursday.

Three House Republicans demanded Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson formally denounce the Muslim Brotherhood, according to a letter released Wednesday evening.

Coptic Pope Tawadros II said Monday that he was impressed with Jordan’s Muslim-Christian coexistence and the country’s inter-faith drive.

Egyptian security expert Khaled Okasha expressed his concern over the way used by the Coptic minors who travelled to Switzerland through Turkey seeking asylum.