We’ve been blessed with another day of wonderfully light coverage of Egypt in theforeign press, with many outlets picking up the Associated Press’ coverage of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s meeting with Jordanian King Abdullah II in Cairo yesterday. Sputnik is also joining the conversation with its own story that centers on the two leaders’ discussions on the situation in Syria.

There are two recent signs that suggest Pope Francis’ trip to Egypt “may have been a papal trip that mattered,” Crux Editor John Allen Jr writes. “One is the construction of a new Christian church with Muslim support, the other legal charges against a powerful Islamic cleric who called Christians and Jews ‘infidels.’” It is still too early to judge the impact of the trip, he says, but “recent days have brought intriguing signs that the pontiff’s message may have captured a moment.”

Former US ambassador to Cairo Daniel Kurtzer has waded into the debate over US President Donald Trump’s alleged blurting out of national security information during a sit-down with the Russians. The piece for Forward, the venerable weekly on Jewish-American interests, is headlined “Why Trump’s Loose Lips May Be ‘Extraordinarily Dangerous’ — To Israel And Us.”

Otherwise, the only story out there rising to the level of even mildly interested is The Australian’s (paywall) tale of a Coptic Egyptian family that was denied residency Down Under.