Supporters of Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, the excluded candidate of the presidential race because of the American nationality of his mother, have raised a black flag which was written on it “NO GOD BUT GOD” which belongs to al-Qaeda. This happened in their demonstrations in Tahrir square and before the ministry of defense building.

For the second day, Supervising Commission for electing the new Pope has received testimonials f the candidates for the papacy. Abba Moussa, bishop of the Youth have got the most testimonials of the Holy Synod and the General Congregation Council, however he refuses to be nominated.

Dr. Mohamed el-Baradei said during the founding conference of the Constitution party yesterday, that the members have decided to come together and unite to form the Constitution party in order to save the revolution that lost its direction as well as to achieve the goals of it which are: Bread, freedom and social justice.

Union of Coptic organizations in Europe announced that they were never involved in drafting the statement which was published in some newspapers to recommend Abba Pachomius to be the Pope. The mentioned statement cited the story of choosing Pope Youannis XIX (1929 - 1942) without drawing the altar lot against the current traditions of choosing the Pope.

Bishops of the Coptic Orthodox Church celebrated today the mass of the fortieth day for the departure of His Holiness Pope Shenouda III in St. Bishoy monastery in Wadil Natroun.

During a press conference today, judge Farouk Sultan, head of the Supreme Committee for the presidential elections said the committee will report the Public Prosecution for any fake document they received.

Political forces in Suez announced it won’t participate with Muslim Brotherhood or any other Islamists in tomorrow’s demonstration or any other one.

The Supreme Committee for the presidential elections announced in a press conference that they had a fair system to verify the documents and data presented by the presidential candidates, by which they had excluded Shafik first and after hearing his appeal the committee decided to cancel the former decision and he was allowed to run for the presidency.

Arif Mohammed Abul Dahab, one of the muggers who had attacked St. Shenouda the Archimandrite monastery (the White monastery) in Sohag has attacked Sami Anis Shenouda from Awlad Azaz village with a knife and hurt him badly in the head and his body claiming Sami had reported the police while they were attacking the monastery.

Church held yesterday a memorial ceremony for Pope Shenouda III in St. Mark cathedral in Abbasya for the commemoration of the fortieth day to the departure of His Holiness. Abba Pachomius, acting patriarch said in his speech: "We will do our best to follow his steps" pointing out that Pope Shenouda taught everyone about tolerance and national unity, and spread love among his people towards everyone. Abba Moussa, the bishop of the youth addressed Pope Shenouda saying: “We really miss you”.

The Union of Coptic organizations in Europe denounced the verdict against the great comedian Adel Imam as the court uphold a conviction against him, sentencing him to 3 months in jail and a fine of 170$ for offending Islam in some of his most popular films

Sami Hanna, a coordinator in literacy project of Life Makers association said that after he had made a blog about a Coptic girl called Samira Moawad Ghatas Ateya who suffers from amputation of the fingers of her hands and applied for school and got better grades than her normal fellows.

CAIRO — An Egyptian court on Tuesday upheld a conviction against one of the Arab world’s most famous comedians, sentencing him to jail for offending Islam in some of his most popular films.

Abba Paul, bishop of Tanta said that organizing the ceremony for the fortieth anniversary of His Holiness Pope Shenouda III next Tuesday and Wednesday will be in coordination with the armed forces, the ministry of interiors, and scouts teams of Youth bishopric.

Father Dawood, a monk at St. Makarios of Alexandria monastery told Copts United that some leaders of the armed forces in Fayoum visited the monastery yesterday, and ordered the monks to stop building the wall of the monastery after they built around 2.5 Kilometers of it. They claimed the land of the wall belongs to the Army.

Eng. Tarik al-Nabarawy sent a message today to Muslim Brotherhood (MB) about what he considered a waste of public money in useless advertisements.

During his visit to Menoufeya, Hamdeen Sabahi the presidential candidate talked about his platform for developing Egypt and converting it from a developing country to a developed one where the citizens will enjoy a decent life with freedom, dignity and justice.

Mohammed al-Damati, undersecretary of the Bar Association told Copts United that the decision of stopping exporting the Egyptian gas to Israel is mainly a political decision that was taken according to the law as Israel has not paid for the Egyptian gas for months.

Sohag Diocese held a memorial ceremony for His Holiness Pope Shenouda III in St. Mark church in Sohag, in the presence of hundreds of church members.

Naguib Gebrael, head of the Egyptian Federation for Human Rights has formed a team from the federation to contact authorities in Saudi Arabia and also meet with the Saudi ambassador in Cairo and human rights organizations to help solving the crisis of the Egyptian citizen Mohammed al-Gizawy who traveled to Saudi Arabia to perform minor hajj and was arrested for charges of abusing the king.

Some men have distributed publications in the streets of Qena that defend Abu Ismail and say that he still has the right to be nominated for the presidency. The publication described the media saying “It’s nonstop war leaded by dogs that never stop barking”