Reform and Development Party, headed by Mohamed Anwar Sadat, invited the Coptic Church to cancel the New Year celebrations in order to avoid the potential terrorist attacks.

European Union of Copts Organizations for Human Rights (EUCOHR) denounced the ruling concerning Khosous sectarian incidents, in which the Coptic Christian defendants were sentenced to life imprisonment and fined thousands of dollars, while all Muslim defendants were acquitted.

As a Coptic Christian man was driving near Cairo University dorms with his family in the car, supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood have attacked him and stoned his car, just because he had a decorative rear view mirror cross.

Sayed M. Khodier, 39 years old barber, was killed yesterday by a fanatic Islamist who was driven crazy by a photo of Egypt’s defense minister, General Abdul Fatah al-Sisi, hanged in his barber shop in Port Said.

Al-Watan newspaper said that leader of al-Qaeda leader, Aiman al-Zawahry, had phoned former president Mohamed Morsy who promised to support al-Qaeda all the way in Egypt.

Sources near former president Hosni Mubarak said he is very interested in reading the new Articles of the Constitution that he thinks are very good.

Homeland Security have arrested Mohamed Hegazy, also known as Bishoy Jermiah, on charges of Evangelizing in Egypt and reporting to an American private television that threaten the national security of Egypt.

Gen. Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt’s Minister of Defense, said that many countries that formerly supported the Muslim Brotherhood have realized now that June 30 was not a military coup, but a great revolution against bad regime.

Security forces in Minya have arrested 6 members of the Muslim Brotherhood on charges of attacking police stations and churches in Minya after the dispersal of Rabaa Adawia and Nahda sit-ins.

Anadolu news Agency said that Egyptian activists have launched Void campaign to imitate Rebel Campaign that removed the Muslim Brotherhood from power three months ago.

Father Matthias Nasr, priest of St. Mary Church in Ezbet El-Nakhl and founder of the Maspero Youth Union, has denied accusations of trading on Maspero martyrs through a Canadian association called “Society of St. Paul to take care of victims of sectarian violence".

Ministry of interiors have announced the arrest of 13 defendants accused of attacking and burning police stations, churches, and public facilities, based on arrest warrants issued by the public prosecutor.

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandrian and Patriarch of St. Mark See, received Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice President of the Commission, yesterday in the papal residence.

The government has approved a law that criminalizing being disrespectful for the Egyptian flag and national anthem or insulting them.

Coptic Cristian Churches have expressed their solidarity with the "prayer campaign" launched by the "Association of victims of kidnapping and enforced disappearances".

Hisham Zazoua , Egyptian Minister of Tourism, said that 12 European countries have lifted Egypt from its travel ban lists.

Thaghr prep school has forced its female students, including Christian students, to wear veils threatening to expel them if they don’t cover the head.

Security forces in North Sinai have arrested Abdul Rahman M. on charges of burning St. George Church in Arish.

During the seminar today about the burned churches in Upper Egypt organized by Copts United foundation, Hasaballah Kafrawi, former Minister of Housing has launched a donation campaign to restore the demolished churches and compensate the affected families. Moreover, he made a donations of 500 EGP.

Ministry of Education has allocated a hotline for reporting against any acts of extremism in the Egyptian schools.

Copts United foundation organizes a seminar tomorrow about the burned churches in Upper Egypt. The seminar is held in Cairo’s Helton Ramsis, with the participation of Gen. Fouad Allam, former deputy of SSI, Abdallah Kafrawi, former Minister of Housing, Dr. Michel Fahmi, political analyst, Isaac Ibrahim,