Egypt has inaugurated a Museum of Quran Reciters, a first-of-its-kind cultural and spiritual institution dedicated to celebrating the nation’s rich heritage of Qur’anic recitation and the legendary ...

CAIRO (AP) — Two Coptic Christian boys have been put in juvenile detention after locals accused them of urinating on pages of the Islamic holy book, an Islamic cleric and prosecutors said Wednesday, ...

CAIROCAIRO — Two Coptic Christian boys have been put in juvenile detention after locals accused them of urinating on pages of the Islamic holy book, an Islamic cleric and prosecutors said Wednesday, ...

CAIRO -- Two Coptic Christian boys in Egypt accused of tearing up a copy of the Quran and urinating on it have been placed in juvenile detention, a lawyer for the children told Reuters on Wednesday.

Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry condemned the repeated burning of the Quran by extremists in the West, calling on Western governments to take action against religious hatred. FM ...

Officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the chargé d’affaires at the Swedish Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday to express the Egyptian people and government’s categorical rejection of the ...

Five anti-Islam activists set fire to a Quran in front of the Egyptian embassy in Copenhagen on Tuesday, the third such incident in Denmark in less than a week, following Quran burnings in nearby ...

The Egyptian foreign ministry has summoned Sweden’s envoy over protests in Stockholm that desecrated the Quran, Cairo said Tuesday, adding to a wave of diplomatic condemnations across the Muslim world ...

The head of the Holy Quran Reciters Syndicate in Egypt Mohamed Saleh Hashad announced that the union is taking legal action against music teacher Ahmed Hegazy for reciting the Quran using a lute.

Egypt on Wednesday harshly condemned the burning of a copy of the Quran in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, in a brazen act designed to provoke Muslims around the world on the first day of Eid al-Adha.