Opinion in parliament has split over a Citizenship bill presented by MP Alaa Abdel Moneim containing an article abolishing the listing of citizens' religion on national ID cards, to be discussed next Saturday.

Coptic Patriarch Pope Tawadros expressed his refusal to the demonstrations scheduled to be organized by Copts before the U.S White House on Tuesday.

Coptic Pope Tawadros II met with Ethiopian ecclesiastical delegation, headed by Secretary of Ethiopian Church’s Holy Synod Bishop Lukas, on Monday in Cairo’s St. Mark Cathedral, Youm7 reported.

Muslim Brotherhood (MB) was not prepared for participating in the presidential elections held in 2012, said MB leading member Yasser Ali on Sunday

Coptic Orthodox Church’s Bishop Paula of Tanta signed the final draft of churches building law on Monday, said Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Magdy Al-Agaty.

A Coptic Orthodox Church delegation is to visit Jerusalem on Tuesday in response to an invitation from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church to discuss the renovation of Deir El Sultan monastery in the Old City.

Pope Francis said Sunday that Islam could not be equated with terrorism and warned Europe was pushing its young into the hands of extremists.

Egypt’s Minister of Endowment Mohamed Mukhtar Gomaa was keen to perform Friday Prayers from Al-Sayeda Nafisa Mosque to hear the written sermon, Youm7 reported.

Egypt’s Islamic institution of Al-Azhar gives priority to supporting the culture of dialogue through using the different communication channels, said Azhat Media Center’s officials.

MP Ehab Mansour praised the meeting between Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi and Coptic Patriarch, Pope Tawadros II at Heliopolis’ presidential palace on Thursday, Youm7 reported.

MP Amr Hamroush proposed to invite representatives of both Egypt’s Endowment Ministry and Muslim Senior Scholars for an open dialogue over the controversial written sermons at the House of Representatives, Youm7 reported on Friday.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi told the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros II on Thursday that all Egyptians are equal in their rights and duties in accordance with the constitution during a meeting held in the wake of recent sectarian attacks in Upper Egypt.

The meeting held between Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi and the Coptic delegation, headed by Pope Tawadros II, came upon a request from the presidency, said the Church’s Spokesman Priest Polis Halim on Thursday.

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi received a Coptic delegation, headed by Pope Tawadros II, in Heliopolis’ presidential palace on Thursday, Youm7 reported.

Issuance of churches building law would resolve 50% of sectarian issues in Egypt, said Chairperson of Free Egyptians Party Essam Khalil on Wednesday.

Parliamentary Religious Committee exerts its efforts to ease the current tension between Egypt’s Islamic institution of Al-Azhar and Endowment Ministry over the written sermon, said MP Shoukry Al-Gendy.

Coptic Patriarch, Pope Tawadros II is scheduled to meet with President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi on Thursday, ecclesiastical sources revealed to Youm7.

Azhar’s Grand Imam Ahmed Al Tayeb ordered the leaders of his Islamic institution not to participate in the current controversy over the written sermons, Youm7 reported on Wednesday.

Coptic Bishop Paula of Tanta expressed his readiness to meet with governmental officials to discuss a new draft of churches building law scheduled to be discussed by the parliament during the current parliamentary round, Youm7 reported on Wednesday.

Egyptian MPs told reporters after their meeting with a British parliamentary delegation in Cairo on Tuesday that the delegation agreed that the Muslim Brotherhood group “must be designated a terrorist organisation.”

Egypt’s Muslim Senior Scholars Unanimously rejected Tuesday the written sermons idea during its meeting headed by Azhar’s Grand Imam Ahmed Al-Tayeb, Youm7 reported.