Father Ayoub Youssef, Priest of the Catholic Church in Delga, received a phone call from the armed forces telling him that the church will be reconstructed by the armed forces.

Father Boktor Saad, priest of the Church of the Virgin Mary in Kafr Hakim, Kerdasa, demanded the officials to complete the restoration of the church that was demolished after the dispersal of Rabaa Adawia and Nahda sit-ins.

Engineering Department of the Armed Forces visited the demolished churches in Fayoum, south of Cairo, to start reconstructing them in few days.

During their pastoral care visit to Australia, Abba Moussa, Bishop of youth, and Abba Paula, Bishop of Tanta, met today with the Ethiopian community in Sydney.

Abba Makarios, bishop of Minya, said that the armed forces arrived today to the headquarters of St. Moussa Church in Minya to start rebuilding the church that was burned by the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization in August 14, 2013.

For the first time in history, an Egyptian court accepted a civil marriage of a Christian Egyptian couple. This was considered a shift in the Personal Status File Coptic Christians who couldn’t apply for civil marriage before.

Abba Agathon, Bishop of Maghagha, opens the church of St. George and St. Philopatir in Belhasa village after its restoration after it was burned on August 14, 2013, after the dispersal of Rabaa Adawia and Nahda sit-ins.

Mkanoti Coptic family renewed its demands to restore its lands, which is seized by Muslim family Ameria village in Alexandria.

Anba Abraham Isaac, patriarch of Catholics in Egypt, headed a congregation today to visit Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, in order to congratulate him on Christmas.

ISIS in northern Iraq, put explosives in old bridges and prominent churches in order to explode them in case of receiving any attacks.

Isaac Ibrahim, Coptic activist, denounced statement of Al-Azhar that accuses Coptic church of being responsible for a satellite channel called al-Hayat that attacks Islam in its programs.

Monk Sarabamoun of St. Bishoy denied rumors of closing monasteries of Wadi Natrun because of terrorist threats.

Security forces in Assiut released a kidnapped Coptic man called Issac Mosad, 55 years old without paying 143.000 $ ransom.

Maher al-Gohary, first Muslim Catechumen in Egypt to demand changing his religion to Christianity in the national ID number, demanded a meeting with President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi.

Several Syrian Christian women decided to carry weapons and fight ISIS after their husbands and fathers were killed and their churches were demolished in the name of Islam.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi received cardinal Mar Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East of the Maronites, and congratulated him on their new church in Heliopolis.

In a statement today, Diocese of Dishna thanked police for releasing the kidnapped Coptic child Antonious Fam, 11 years old.

A Coptic family in the village of Sheikh Youssef in Sohag, accused a Muslim young man of kidnapping their daughter days before her wedding.

Coptic Church in Vienna bought the Triumphant Virgin Church in Vienna. The contract was signed by Cardinal of the Catholic Church in Austria Christoph Hunbern.

Family House concluded the project of Together for Egypt between dozens of Muslim and Christian clergy. The project aimed to stress values of cooperation between Muslims and Christians for the sake of the country’s progress.

Free Egyptians Party sent delegation to Russia to offer sincere condolences in the victims of Russian plane in Sharm el-Sheikh.