Commenting on burning a number of police stations, Dr. Mustafa Najjar, former MP, said it is so worrisome as many people talk about forming public militias to replace police, and these militias will be much worse than the police.

Police coalition in Assiut has refused statements of the leader of the Islamic group in Assiut, in which he offers to convert their headquarters to police stations and take care of security in Assiut instead of the police.

Hundreds of policemen demonstrated in Beni Suef yesterday to demand interior minister to resign and to arm policemen against many thugs who carry weapons agianst them.

Investigation Customs in Sokhna port has seized 20.000 police suits smuggled form Qatar to Zad company that belongs to Khairat al-Shater, vice president of the Muslim Brotherhood.

The couple, who have now been released after negotiations with security officials, were identified as Andy Wells, the 51-year-old head of the local subsidiary of Exxon Mobil, the oil company, and his 48-year-old wife Caroline.

For the first time since the enthonement of His Holiness Pope Tawadros II, he has, along with 75 metropolitans and bishops, members of the Holy Synod, enthroned the following bishops:

Egyptian police on Friday began the largest police strike ever where the anti-riot personnel closed their camps and scores of police stations were closed nationwide. The task of protecting the Port Said Security Directorate was also handed over to the Armed Forces.

15:00 Retired Port Said resident Awad El-Gueily, speaking to Ahram Online’s Osman El- Sharnoubi, says the city’s residents are “boiling with rage.”

Dozens of Salafis have demonstrated against the Muslim Brotherhood in Beni Suef protesting against the severe shortage of diesel fuel, which raised the fee of the transportation and increased the traffic problems.

Martha Saad, mother of the abducted Coptic minor girl Nadia, said that police is not willing to arrest the abductors whom are well know by them.

Dr. Esam el-Erian, Muslim Brotherhood leader, said there is an emergency meeting in Freedom and Justice party after the Supreme Administrative Court had issued a political judgment to delay House of Representatives elections.

European newspapers said that Pope Benedict XVI, who resigned last February, will keep the title and the formal clothing of the Pope, but will abandon the pastoral care of the Catholic Church.

House of Representatives elections have been delayed after the Supreme Administrative Court referred the election law recently passed by the Shura Council back to the Supreme Constitutional Court.

Around 8,000 police officers and recruits across 34 Central Security Forces (CSF) camps in Sinai and the Suez Canal joined strike calls Wednesday.

Egypt's presidency will appeal a decision by the administrative court to suspend President Mohamed Morsi's call for a parliamentary vote starting April 22, legal advisor Mohamed Gadallah told Reuters.

MANSOURA — The violence in Mansoura had ebbed significantly Monday after the driver of the Central Security Forces truck that ran over and killed a resident there was imprisoned.

Mohammed Amer, 35, has tried to spread a rumor that says the Evangelical Community is going to build a church on a small piece of land in Masara, Mallawy.

Kimi Coptic Austrian Organization has decided to boycott the upcoming elections scheduled on April.

Alaa Hakim, human rights activist, told Copts United that members of the Islamic group have burnt the house and the restaurant of a Christian man called Karam Antar, 35, after he was accused of raping a Muslim child

Dr. Naguib Gebrael, head of the Egyptian Federation for Human Rights, said that throughout the history of the Coptic Church, it was neither a threat nor a harm for the state.