A homemade bomb exploded today next to the Evangelical Church of God, in Sarie district in Minya. The bomb caused great panic, but no casualties or deaths.

Reconciliation meeting was held yesterday to end crisis between Coptic and Muslim family in Masara village, Mallawy.

Security forces Minya have arrested a terrorist involved in attacking the Evangelical Church in Mallawi and setting it on fire.

Security forces in Minya have arrested three members of the Muslim Brotherhood accused of burning the Evangelical Church in Mallawy as well as several public properties after the dispersal of Rabaa Adawia and Nahda sit-ins.

Security forces deployed between Gabal al-Tir and Beni Khalid villages in order to prevent potential clashes after Muslims in Beni Khalid decided to demand the return of Coptic woman to Islam claiming she has converted into Islam. Yet, it was denied by the lady herself.

Four Copts were injured yesterday in sectarian clashes between Coptic Christians and Muslims at Beni Ahmed village, Minya.

Security forces in Minya have arrested a member of the Muslim Brotherhood who's accused of burning a church in Malawi after the dispersal of Rabaa Adawia and Nahda sit-ins on August 14th.

Samalot Prosecution decided the continued imprisonment of 14 of the Copts who were arrested in the incidents of Jabal al-Tair village.

15 members of the Muslim Brotherhood were acquitted after being charged with attacking shops of the Copts in Minya.

Two Coptic families of Barsha village, Minya, were shot yesterday in order to force them to pay royalties.

Police attempted to disperse a crowd of Copts demonstrating in the streets next to Jabal al-Tair police station after two month passed since a Coptic woman has disappeared.

Two Coptic Christian sisters accused a policeman of assaulting them in the street. They added that the officer and his wife have been bothering them for months.

Mandi Hani, 14 years old Coptic Christian child, was kidnapped in Thansha village, Minya. The kidnappers demanded 250.000 LE ransom to release him.

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.

Police in Minya have seized house of a Coptic man in Samalot after he was accused of celebrating the holy mass at his own house and trying to turn it into church without getting the due permits.

4 people were injured today in sectarian clashes between Muslims and Christians in Beni Amar vilage, Matay, Minya.

Police in Samalout, Minya, have released 14 Muslim and Christian defendants arrested in sectarian clashes in Ezbet Yacob because of church construction.

A Coptic old woman named Sedika Wahba was killed in mysterious circumstances before her dead body was found in the street in Minya.