Coptic Orthodox Churches celebrated the feast of St. Joseph the Carpenter last Friday. St. Joseph was the foster father of Jesus Christ and took care of the Holy Family even before Jesus was born.

Coptic Orthodox Church is going to start the fasting of the Virgin Mary next Wednesday for two weeks. Many churches and monasteries hold spiritual renaissance meetings lie St. Mary monastery in Assiut that receives roughly two million visitors. The fasting will end on August 22 on the day of ascension of her body to heaven.

Media Center of the Coptic Orthodox Chruch celebrated the 31st anniversary or the ordination of Pope Tawadros II a monk. The center prayed for God to give Pope Tawadros power and wisdom to rule His people.

The Coptic Orthodox Church announced that Bishop Ermia, head of the Copts Cultural Centre, opened the exhibition of the artist Saad Metri under the patronage of His Holiness Pope Tawadros II. The exhibition was attended by a number of artists and the family of the late artist.

His Holiness Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, headed a conference of priests in the Arabian Gulf region, at the Pontifical Logos Center in Wadi El Natroun. According to the Egyptian Orthodox Church, the conference will be attended by Bishop Julius, Archbishop of Old Cairo, and a number of priests and their families.

Bishop Bernaba of the diocese of Turin, Rome and Genoa, signed the final contract for the Church of the Great St. Antony in Genoa, Italy. On the other hand, Abba Antoinus, Archbishop of the Egyptian Orthodox Church in the Holy Land and the Near East, revealed that His Holiness Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and the Patriarch of St. Mark See, is going to visit Iraq to inspect the Copts living there.

Muslim Council of Britain issued a statement in which it said that vaccines contain gelatin derived from pigs are prohibited by Islamic law. For their part, many parents refused to give such vaccine to their children and demanded the government to find another halal vaccine.

A Christian woman called Reda Youssef complained that she couldn t get the pension or heritage of her deceased Muslim husband, just because she is Christian. She and her husband got married 20 years ago, but didn t have children and her Christian faith was the reason she couldn t get the pension or heritage from her deceased Muslim husband.

Bishop Paula of Tanta presided over the ecumenical meeting of the Middle East churches in Egypt. The meeting discussed the collective work and the unity of working for the church. The meeting included a number of priests, a group of evangelical priests, Catholics, Roman Orthodox and nuns of Notre Dame.

Matai Bishopric celebrated the legalization of the new Cathedral after receiving the new permits to start building. They called the people to start raising fund campaign on a bank account 3090202000001391 in dollars as / Anba Georgios Bishop of Mattay in the Bank of Egypt branch of Matai-Minya.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that his grandfather was working as a cotton farmer in the Delta in Egypt back in 1935. He explained in a television interview that his grandfather met with his grandmother in Egypt, where they got married.

Coptic activists in Mallawy expressed their anger at repeated water cuts in the monastery of Batul for nuns in Minya. Many complains were filed to governor of Minya urging him to solve the problem, but there was no progress in the situation.

Stores and fields of Copts in Koum Raheb village were set on fire by extremists after Copts demanded the reopen of a church. The only church in the villages was shut down by police following demands of the extremists, but a funeral was held in front of the closed building aroused the anger of young people and deacons in the village, prompting them to open the building by force and sit inside to express their anger.

Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities opened an urgent investigation into the incident of spitting on a mummy of an ancient Egyptian king Saknen Ra by a visitor while touring at the royal mummies hall located in the upper floor of the Egyptian museum. An investigation was opened and a legal action is expected to find out the circumstances of the incident.

Dr. Nabila Makram, Minister of Immigration and Affairs of the Egyptians Abroad, said that the Egyptian political leadership rejects the term "Copts of the Diaspora" and rejects discrimination on the basis of religion. She said the Copts are not persecuted in Egypt and added the Ministry is working on forming a group to respond to all the rumors raised about Egypt abroad.

International media have been talking about a Nigerian Imam called Abu Bakr Abdullah for his role in saving the lives of more than 200 Christians during an armed attack on them. This came after his hid them in his house while they were escaping herders from the Volani tribe trying to kill them because of ethnic fights back in 2018. The Sheikh s position was widely praised for his humanity and courage in protecting these souls. He was honored in the United States of America with the International Prize for Religious Freedom.

The Egyptian inventor, Ahmad Abdullah, known as Ahmed Newton, and his sister Mai Abdullah, won the gold medal in a competition at the Korea International Exhibition of inventions, in the field of energy Ahmed said that his invention of energy is a development of a technology that the Korean scientists have connected to the generation of electric energy from sound wave energy, but his invention produced much more power than their results. On the importance of his invention, Ahmed explained that his invention is clean energy that can be used at the international level and in the daily uses of individuals such as charging phones and cars.

The monastery of Abu Makar in Wadi Al-Natroun is preparing to commemorate the first anniversary of the departure of Abba Epiphanius, Bishop of the monastery on July 26. The commemorative services will be headed by Pope Tawadros II in the presence of a number of Coptic bishops.

A group of Copts from the village of Kom Raheb in Minya to demand the opening of the church that police have shut down months ago. This came after a funeral of a Coptic man was held in the streets with the nearest church closed and the other church is too far from this village. It is worth mentioning that the Copts were asked to negotiate the reopening of the church with the fanatics!

Bisho Zocima of Atfih celebrated the Holy Mass yesterday of the feast of St. Ibrahim the Simple at the Virgin Church in Baramil. Relics of the Saint were perfumed during the celebration. The Saint was born in 1885 in the village of Bani Samet. His name was Iskandar and he worked in dyeing and caring for sheep before he was ordained a priest. He performed many miracles and ministered his people faithfully till he died in 1972.

Manfalut diocese celebrated the enthronement anniversary of Bishop Theophilus. A number of bishops and senior officials attended the ceremony in addition to thousands of the congregation of the diocese.