An Egyptian court on Saturday sought the death penalty for former president Mohamed Mursi and 106 supporters of his Muslim Brotherhood in connection with a mass jail break in 2011.
Sixty-nine suspected Muslim Brotherhood supporters were each sentenced to 25 years in prison in Egypt on Wednesday for attacking and burning a church in a village near Cairo in 2013.
Priests and Imams in Minya, the home province of the 21 Coptic Christians beheaded by Islamic State earlier this year, are launching an initiative to encourage peaceful co-existence in schools.
Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Tuesday, nearly three years after he became Egypt's first freely elected president.
A church being set up in memory of the 21 Coptic Christians beheaded by ISIS was attacked on the same day as a commemorative mass marked 40 days since their death.
Christian communities in Egypt's Luxor province are filled with fear and tension as the day of verdict approaches in a murder case involving four Egyptian Copts.
The beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians has energised the Church and strengthened relationships with the Muslim community, a Coptic-Catholic Bishop has said.