After priestly service for nearly 50 years, Copts of Bani Mazar bid farewell to Father Maqar Jaber, priest of the Virgin and 49 martyrs in Abi Galban. The funeral was headed by Bishop Athanasius of Beni Mazar and was attended by the clergy and congregation of the diocese and some nearby dioceses.

Abba Abraam, Bishop of Fayoum, inaugurated the baptism of St. George Church at the headquarters of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Fayoum. The inauguration ceremony was attended by the clergy, deacons and the congregation of the diocese.

The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced two defendants of Helwan Church terrorist attack to death penatly. The court charged the defendants with establishing, leading and joining the terrorist group, financing its elements, killing nine citizens and one police officer.

The Coptic Orthodox Church announced that Pope Tawadros of Alexandria and the Patriarch of St. Mark See, will preside on Wednesday over the first mass meeting of youth at the Cathedral of Alexandria, organized by the General Secretariat for Youth Service in Alexandria. The meeting will be attended by Abba Bavli, Bishop of the Montazah Churches, Bishop Elarion of Western Churches and Bishop Hermina of the Churches of Central Alexandria. The aim of the meeting is to conduct a papal dialogue between the Pope and the young people to learn about their thinking regarding the ecclesiastical issues and raising their awareness.

His Grace Abba Makarios, the General Bishop of Minya, and the Synod of Minya Priests, and the congregation offered their sincere condolences to Bishop Raphael of Central Cairo Churches in the death of his mother, Mrs. Kamelah Soliman. In a statement, they prayed for her sour to rest in peace in the paradise of joy.

The Egyptian communities in Europe launched a number of conferences in the European countries to explain the constitutional amendments to Egyptians residing abroad. The conferences aimed at educating Egyptians about the importance of positive and effective participation in the referendum procedures on the constitutional amendments. Emad Nassar, one of the participants, said that more than 5 conferences were organized in Paris alone.

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, received ambassador of Ethiopia to Cairo Dina Mofty. Pope expressed his happiness with the historic relations between the two churches and also recalled cherished memories during his visit to Ethiopia in 2015.

Abba Antonius, Archbishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the Holy Land, celebrated the Divine Liturgy for the third consecutive day at the Church of the Jerusalem Association in Cairo. It is noteworthy that Abba Antonius met yesterday with Egypt s Minister of Civil Aviation, Younis al-Masri, at the Ministry of Aviation within the framework of the initiative of the Minister of Aviation to travel Copts from the staff of the Ministry of Aviation and its bodies to visit Jerusalem and the Church of the Resurrection for the first time in the history of the civil aviation sector.

The Church of St. George in Tanta, Gharbia, commemorated the second anniversary of the bombings of Palm Sunday. The bombings of Palm Sunday coincided with the celebration of the Palm Sunday in 2017, when a simultaneous bombing targeted the Church of St. George in Tanta, and St. Mark Church in Alexandria, and resulted in the deaths of dozens of worshipers and police officers.

Coptic Orthodox Church announced in a statement today that Pope Tawadros of Alexandria and the Patriarch of St. Mark See, will deliver his weekly sermon next Wednesday from the Cathedral of St. Mark in Abbasiyah. It is noteworthy that Pope Tawadros, delivered his weekly sermon last Wednesday at the monastery of St. Bishoy in Wadi al-Natroun.

3 police officers were killed and three others were injured in a shooting at a police car in Nozha, Cairo. Unknown masked men attacked the officers and shot them dead, and the matter is currently under investigation.

In his recent interview with Al-Ain Emirati magazine, Pope Tawadros II said that the Muslim Brotherhood can t divide the Egyptian people giving the nature and history of the Egyptians. He added that Egypt is not a trivial country and the first central state was formed in Egypt along with the first army in history.

Sources in the Coptic the church said that Pope Tawadros II will start a pastoral tour to visit various dioceses after Easter. Pope Tawadros is going to hold a meeting with priests of each diocese around Egypt, and will extend to churches abroad.

The Supreme State Security Court sentenced on Saturday 18 terrorists involved in the bombing of a church in Alexandria in 2017 to life imprisonment. The terrorist group that targeted the bombing of a church in Alexandria with a double suicide bombing. 8 defendants were sentenced to 15 years in prison and 4 others to 10 years in the same case.

During his speech in a Cathedral in Morocco, Pope Francis asked Christians to refrain from preaching Christianity in Morocco, and asked them to make a change in their societies. Morocco has a minority of Christians, and newly converted Christianity are arrested by police under a law in Morocco prohibiting evangelization.

The Times newspaper interviewed the British student Shaima Begum, who fled Britain and joined the terrorist organization in Syria, which made the British authorities stripped her of the British citizenship. Begum had to spend months in a camp in Syria where she lost her son after suffering from severe pneumonia. She asked for another chance claiming she was brainwashed.

The Criminal Court of Minya sentenced a policeman to death penalty after he was convicted of killing a Coptic contractor and his son in front of a church in Minya city last December. It is worth mentioning that the ruling is subject to appeal before the Court of Cassation within 60 days of the verdict.

Youth Bishopric announced today that the Annual Mass of University Youth will be held on 12 April. The Holy Mass will be held with the participation of Bishop Moussa of Youth and Raphael of Central Cairo Churches.

Bishop Markos of Shoubra El-Kheima inaugurates new baptism at the church of St. Mary and St. Abanoub and held the holy mass during which he inaugurated the new baptism and promoted a priest to the rank of Hegumin. During his visit, Bishop Markos ordained 81 deacons at the basic rank of Ebsaltus, translated chanter, and promoted 15 to the rank of Oghnostos, transtlted reader.

Monks of St. Samuel monastery underwent the compulsive examination of hepatitis C virus. The initiative targets 3 million and 348 thousand citizens in Minya governorate, where the monastery of St. Samuel is located. There are 1,167 survey teams through 793 medical points at the governroate.

The oldest piece of woven clothing in human history dates back to 5000 years ago was discovered in Egypt in 1913 in Tarkhan, Upper Egypt. The test of carbon radiation conducted by the University of Oxford in 2015, with a accuracy of 95% , assured that the dress dates back to the period between 3482 and 310 2 BC and was classified as the eldest piece of woven clothing in human history.