One of the monks of the monastery of St. Makarios of Alexandria, Fayoum, said that Arab Contractors Company sent yesterday equipment to pave a pathway inside the monastery of Rayan Valley. Then, the monks showed the engineers of the company documents that prove the monastery has several antiquities that could be destroyed by this work.

A customary reconciliation session was held on Friday between Muslim and Coptic families in Sharona Island, Minya, where both families decided to wavier the police reports in order to release 9 defendants arrested in the clashes.

Wahid Shenouda, coordinator of protest against wrong way to handle church financial problems in front of St. Mark Cathedral in Abbasiya on September 9 denied the protest is against the Pope, and assured that it comes to fix wrong situation in the diocese and Personal Status Law.

Maspero Youth Union refused calls by some people to demonstrate against the Church on September 9 to achieve a list of demands to put pressure on the church.

Copts of Egypt coalition denounced calls to demonstrate against the church leaders on September 9 assuring that they only aim to make a cheap show or bargain.

Mariam Malak, the Coptic student who got zero % in high school final exams, sent a painful letter in short words to President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi asking him to help her in this crisis and that she had asked him before, but he did not respond. She told him in her letter that she has done its best for 11 years to achieve her goal.

Hundreds of churches in Europe rang their bells last Saturday in support of Christians in the Middle East at the feast of St. Mary.

Egypt Council of Churches decided to appoint Father Rafik Grish, spokesman for the Catholic Church, as head of the Media Committee of the Egyptian Council of Churches.

The Protestant Church holds a meeting today headed by Presbyter Andria Zaki, head of the Protestant Church in Egypt, to discuss the new family affairs legislation enacted for all Christians.

HG Abba Pemwa bishop of Suez announces a new resolution regarding weddings to be applied in all churches of Suez starting on Sunday following St. Mary’s Feast.

Fr. Rafik Greish, spokesman of the Catholic Church, reported that The Egyptian Council of Churches (ECC), His Holiness Patriarch Ibrahim Isaac, patriarch of the Catholic Church, and His Holiness Gregorius Laham, patriarch of the Roman Catholic Church in Egypt, sent their condolences to President Al-Sisy on his mother’s death

The bishop of Maghagha and Adwa announced that he hopes for a solution for the crisis of Miana Village that started by last Easter before a new head of the police department started to work there.

The Saudi religious police forced in a house at Al-Azizi Square, Al-Khafagy Governorate, and arrested 27 Christians because they were praying, and confiscated bibles and musical instruments.

Hundreds of churches in Europe ring their bells today, August 15th, as a support for Christians of the east, on the commemoration of St. Mary’s departure, according to their calendar. One of these churches is the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

The youth committee at the Egyptian Council of Churches (ECC) has just finished its meeting and decided to establish a media office to communicate with journalists, the press and the public.

Abba Abraam, Bishop of Abba Abram Monastery in Fayoum, said that the monastery receives daily visitors to celebrate the Virgin Mary fasting from all cities of the province as well as visitors from other provinces and the numbers are increasing continuously.

A coptic minor girl called Mary Magdy Attia, 17 years-old disappeared in a mysterious circumstances in Minya. Her family sent a distress to General Magdy Abdel General Magdy Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of the interior, telling him about the disappearance of their minor daughter asking him to find their daughter.

Criminal Investigation Directorate in Bani Sweif were reported that two houses where owned by Copts in Alfashn village, were burned, which caused damages in both the two houses.

Giza Governorate's prosecutor decided the imprisonment of a Coptic man called Medhat Isaac, who was accused of distributing Holy Bibles in front of a commercial center in October 6 city.

Minya security forces succeeded in releasing four kidnapped Copts.

Father Abraham Azmi, official media spokesperson of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United States, said that the official magazine of the preaching of the church will be available soon via Android devices.