CAIRO – It was a startling collision of religion and politics. Egypt's president proposed a new law that would prevent Muslim men from ending their marriages simply by saying "divorce" three times.

Islam and Christianity are frequently described as “missionary religions.” Considering that well over half the planet’s population belongs in some way to either tradition, there’s no small truth in ...

CAIRO — To Sheik Abdel Moneim el-Shahat, the Muslim Brotherhood’s call to apply only the broad principles of Islamic law allows too much freedom. Shahat is a leader of the ultraconservative Islamists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this Monday, Nov. 11, 2019 photo, human rights lawyer Hoda Nasrallah poses for a portrait at her office in Cairo, Egypt. Since ...

CAIRO — With all the confusion and controversy these days over Islam, Sheik Khalid Gendy thinks he has hit on the perfect way to set the record straight, emphasize his religion’s message of peace--and ...

The ninth edition of the Islamic State’s Rumiyah (“Rome”) magazine was released online earlier today. And it features an interview with an unnamed jihadist who is identified as the “emir” of the group ...

[Editor's note: In his July 17 column for Tribune Media Services, Joel Brinkley wrote that Egypt’s new president has been quiet about calls by senior Islamic clerics for the demolition of the Great ...

Reporting from Minya, Egypt — Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on a bus loaded with Coptic Christians the day before near the southern city of Minya, which officials said killed 29 ...

CAIRO – Egypt's top Islamic authority has rejected the president's suggestion for legislation that would invalidate the practice of men verbally divorcing their wives. Al-Azhar's Council of Grand ...

CAIRO — One Egyptian woman is taking on the country’s inheritance laws that mean female heirs inherit half that of men. Since her father's death last year, Huda Nasrallah, a Christian, has stood ...