Suspects of kidnapping a Copt and his son exchanged fire with police yesterday; one of them was shot dead.

Abba Gabriel, Bishop of Beni Suef, said during his weekly sermon that Christians should generously pay the tithes in order to receive many blessings from God.

Prosecutors renewed detention of four accused of killing a Copt in Mentay for 15 days pending investigation. Abba Marcos, Bishop of Shubra Al Khaimah, visited the victim's family to offer condolences and demand the punishment of the agressors according to the law.

Copts in Jabal al-Tair, Minya, have demonstrated to demand the return of a kidnapped Coptic housewife. Police were reported and the matter is still under investigation.

Copts in Assiut demanded security to prevent thugs from imposing royalties on the Copts in Rezka village. They published a statement on the internet to seeks help from president Abdul Fattah al-Sisi to restore security to this poor village.

Salafists in Germany decided to form their own police under the name “Sharia Police”, which monitors the behavior of the Germans and targets the application of Islamic law in Germany.

Mallawy police have removed the cultivation of the attackers of Abu Fana monastery and arrested three of them.

Apartment of a Coptic man called Emad Edward was broken into and stolen by some extremists at October city.

Father Moussa Ibrahim, priest at Sohag diocese, said that the restoration work of St. George Church, which was burned in the attack by supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood after the dispersal of Rabaa Adawia and Nahda sit-ins, is almost done.

Minya Criminal court has acquitted 7 leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood who were charged with inciting violence and attacking public and private properties after the dispersal or Rabaa Adawia and Nahda sit-ins.

A kidnapped Coptic young man was killed in Shubra al-Kheima as his family failed to pay 100.000 LE ransom.

Mokhtar Ahemd, former MP, was arrested on charges of burning St. George Church in Sohag.

Sources in Beni Suef Diaspora told Copts United that a security leader hinders the restoration of Diabia church.

Anba Morcos, bishop of Shubra Al Khaimah, said that police have arrested killers of the Coptic young man who was killed after his family failed to pay the ransom.

Fire department in Minya has extinguished huge fire at a Coptic house in Minya.

Hundreds of Egyptians in Austria have demonstrated to denounce a suspicious conference by Al Jazeera, which aims to defame Egypt in every opportunity.

A member of the Muslim Brotherhood has attacked houses of Coptic Christians in Tayyba village, Minya, with Molotov Cocktails and guns.

Police in Deshna, Qena, freed a Coptic merchant and his son who were kidnapped. Police broke into the house of the kidnappers and freed the father and his son.

Bomb squad team in Beni Suef has thwarted a bomb planted next to the Pentecostal Church in Beni Suef. A man was arrested and is currently being investigated.

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, has visited the shrine of St. Maurice in Switzerland.

Prosecutor of northern Cairo decided to release Yasser Borhamy, Vice Chairman of the Salafist call, who was accused of contempt of Christianity and described the Copts as infidels.