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 Egyptian presidency announced that the funeral of President Sisy-s mother will only be attended by her family members.

Lawyer Samir Sabry made a report to the state security prosecution against Nader Bakkar, a leader at Al-Nour Islamic party as he cursed Christians, considering them infidels.

HG Abba Mina, bishop of Mississauga, Vancouver and West of Canada, visited Archangel Michael’s and St. Takla Hemanout’s church which Pope Tawadros II consecrated a year ago.

HG Abba Luka, bishop of southern France and the French speaking parts of Switzerland, celebrated the liturgy, during which he ordained a new priest for St. Mary’s Church at Geneva.

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.

Egypt's foreign ministry strongly condemned on Saturday a report issued by Human Rights Watch (HRW) which criticises governmental "inaction" following the violent 2013 dispersal of the Islamist Rabaa sit-in.

Egypt’s Journalists Syndicate is to send the final version of the unified draft law on regulating press and media to the Prime Ministry Sunday, said Syndicate’s member Alaa Thabet Thursday.

Mohamed Salmawy, head of the Arab Writers Union, has requested the Interior Minister facilitate the entry of Arab writers and intellectuals who have completed formalities and received visas from Egyptian embassies abroad.

Russia has handed Egypt a Molniya missile ship that participated in the inauguration of the "New Suez Canal" earlier this month, the Egyptian armed forces announced on Saturday.

Egypt will open the Rafah Border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Monday for three days in both directions, state-owned news agency MENA reported on Saturday.

Two yeaphotojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid, better known as Shawkan, has exceeded the maximum legal pre-trial detention periodrs after his arrest during the forceful dispersal of pro-Muslim Brotherhood sit-ins by security forces, .

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark See, received a delegation of deacons from Virgin Mary deacons School in Nasr City.

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.

Dr. Naguib Gabriel, head of the Egyptian Union of Human Rights Organization, revealed that there is a massive campaign to resolve the religious parties.

In a protest inside the great Cathedral of St. Mark in Abbasia, a number of Copts protested against what they described as the exploitation of some bishops and priests to their religious authority and wasting church funds.

Explosion of three improvised explosive devices in Tanta, Gharbia Governorate. Civil protection forces have found a fourth bomb in the same area and the bomb was dismantled.