Interior Ministry refused to give permission for the anti-church demonstration on September 9 in front of St. Mark Cathedral in Abbasiya for security reasons.

Omar Marwan Egypt’s Acting Attorney General ordered the reopening of investigation at case of high school student who received zero marks in all her summer exams, and the transfer of the investigation from the control of Assiut to Cairo.

Father Poulos Halim, spokesman for the Coptic Orthodox Church, said that the Coptic student Mariam Malak, the famous Zero student, refused to meet with Pope Tawadros today.

Mary, the excellent student who got Zero in the exams of the secondary school, met today with the Egyptian Prime Minster Ibrahim Mehleb who received her as daughter and promised to reopen the investigation and return her rights.

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark See, is going to meet with Mary, the excellent student who got Zero in the exams of the secondary school, in order to listen to her and support her.

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.