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The Latest: Egypt’s president ratifies law restricting NGOs

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In this Monday, Feb. 16, 2015, file photo, a man is comforted by others as he mourns over Egyptian Coptic Christians who were captured in Libya and killed by militants affiliated with the Islamic State group, outside of the Virgin Mary church in the village of el-Aour, near Minya, 220 kilometers (135 miles) south of Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Egypt’s answer to latest attack reflects despair, resolve

By HAMZA HENDAWI - Associated Press

This frame grab from video shows an ambulance outside Saint Mark's Cathedral following a suicide bombing that killed several people, just after Coptic Pope Tawadros II finished services, in the coastal city of Alexandria, Egypt, Sunday, April 9, 2017. Bombs tore through two Egyptian churches in different cities as worshippers were marking Palm Sunday, both claimed by the Islamic State group. (Al-Masry Al-Youm, via AP) ** FILE **

Egypt: Gunmen attack Christians, killing at least 24

By Maggie Michael - Associated Press

Dozens of Coptic Christians were killed in a December bombing at St. Mark Cathedral in central Cairo. Each month, about 322 Christians are killed, 214 churches or Christian properties are destroyed, and 772 acts of violence are carried out on Christians because of their faith, advocates say. (Associated Press)

Coptic Christians, dozens of them, massacred in Egypt

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Tarek Tawfik, director of the Grand Egyptian Museum, speaks to reporters in front of king Tutankhamun's funerary bed upon its arrival at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, May 23, 2017. The museum received the funerary bed and a chariot as a step towards the transportation of the boy king's treasured collection from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir to the new Grand museum, scheduled to open in 2018. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Egypt moves bed, chariot of King Tut to new museum

By MENNA ZAKI - Associated Press

Egypt refers militants to military trial over church attacks

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Pope Francis waves as he arrives to celebrate Mass for Egypt's tiny Catholic community, at the Air Defense Stadium in Cairo, Saturday, April 29, 2017. Pope Francis came to Egypt on Friday for a historic visit to the Arab and Muslim majority nation aimed at presenting a united Christian-Muslim front to repudiate violence committed in God's name. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

The Latest: Pope urges Egypt’s clergy to remain positive

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A billboard welcomes Pope Francis, at St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, April 27, 2017. On Friday, Francis is scheduled to begin a two-day pilgrimage to Egypt aimed at lifting the spirits of Christians in the Middle East, whose numbers have rapidly dwindled in recent decades due to war, displacement and emigration. The visit will include a meeting with Egypt's president and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar as well as a Mass in a stadium on the outskirts of Cairo. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Pope Francis in Egypt, seeks Christian-Muslim rejection of violence

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

This Feb. 20, 2017 photo, shows renovations at Al-Azhar Mosque in the Egyptian capital, Cairo. Egypt is embroiled in a blistering political feud over who speaks for Islam and how to bring reforms to counter Islamic militancy. At the center of it is Al-Azhar, one of the top institutions of clerics in the Muslim world and considered the bastion of moderate Islam. Critics, including Egypt’s pro-government, say it is too tied down in old ways and failing to modernize its teachings, fueling extremism. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Angry debate in Egypt over reforms in Islam against radicals

By HAMZA HENDAWI and LEE KEATH and MARIAM FAM - Associated Press

Egypt’s tourism officials insist popular sites are safe

By AYA BATRAWY and FAY ABUELGASIM - Associated Press

President Donald Trump meets with Aya Hijazi, an Egyptian-American aid worker, in the Oval office of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 21, 2017. Hijazi, an Egyptian-American charity worker was freed after nearly three years of detention in Egypt returning to the U.S., Thursday, April 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Donald Trump on Aya Hijazi: Obama ‘got zippo, zero’ on imprisoned aid worker

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Aya Hijazi, an Egyptian-American aid worker, meets with President Donald Trump in the Oval office of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 21, 2017. Hijazi, an Egyptian-American charity worker was freed after nearly three years of detention in Egypt returning to the U.S., Thursday, April 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Egyptian-American release came after ‘no deal,’ Trump says

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

President Donald Trump meets with Aya Hijazi, an Egyptian-American aid worker, in the Oval office of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 21, 2017. Hijazi, an Egyptian-American charity worker was freed after nearly three years of detention in Egypt returning to the U.S., Thursday, April 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

The Latest: Trump says ‘no deal’ was made for charity worker

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