Coptic churches held emergency meetings today to discuss bill of building churches after the recent amendments that allowed building churches without crosses or domes.

A Coptic woman called Nada Fathy, 26 years old, disappears in mysterious circumstances in Alexandria on July 30.

Sources in the Coptic Church said the Holy Synod will reject the bill of building churches as they believe it will cause more problems.

A masked man who tried to slaughter the guard of St. Mary Church in Nozha, Heliopolis, Cairo, was shot dead right away by the other police man guarding the church.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met with Sherif Ismail, the Prime Minister, on Monday, to discuss the bill of building churches.

Egyptian national powers of parliament and parties and activists rejected the current bill of building churches considering it reproduction of the crisis.

The Court of Bani Suef decided to extend the detention of 18 Muslims accused of inciting violence and attacking properties of Copts for extra 15 days.

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, invited the Holy Synod to an emergency meeting on Wednesday to discuss the bill of building churches.

The Islamic Center in the Austrian announced that Friday sermons will only discuss topics related to worship, virtues and moral values.