The Salafist Call and al-Nour ultra conservative party used fatwa of Sheikh Mohammed Nasreddin the Albanian, which legalized nominating the Copts on the electoral lists of al-Nour. The fatwa considered the Copts less dangerous than atheists on Islam, and therefore, voting for them is the least evil!

Abba Iklimindos, General Bishop of Ottawa, Montreal and eastern Canada, ordained 8 new deacons in the church of St. Mina in Halifax.

Abba Moussa, Bishop of young people, celebrated the passage of 35 years on the establishment of Youth Bishopric.

Coptic Orthodox church participated in the peace conference in Seoul that was ended on Saturday evening. The conference was held in the presence of representatives from all religions including Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus and different faiths.

The Secretariat of the Council of the Churches of Egypt held a meeting on Saturday, at the headquarters of the presidency of the Evangelical Church in Heliopolis, headed by Rev. Dr. Bishoy Helmy, Secretary General of the Council of the Churches of Egypt. After that, the Executive Committee of the Council held another meeting, to discuss achievement of each committee of the council.

Pope Tawadros II, phoned Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, Sheikh of Al-Azhar, to congratulate him on Eid al-Adha. The Pope is currently in a pastoral care visit to Denmark and Sweden that takes about two weeks.

Egyptian consulate in Sydney held a celebration on Sunday to honor Dr. Laila Iskandar, Minister of Development, artist Mohamed Sobhi, and Judge Amir Ramzy.

Abba Raphael, General Bishop of the Churches of downtown Cairo and secretary of the Holy Synod, opened on Sunday the first Coptic book fair in Cairo at St. Mark church in Azbakia.

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark See, met with the members of the Egyptian community in Denmark, during his visit to the headquarters of the Egyptian embassy in Copenhagen.

Rev. Dr. Manis Abdel Nour, pastor of the evangelical church in Doubbara Palace, died today after suffering a long illness.

Dr. Aida Nassif, professor of philosophy at the University of Cairo, announced her resignation from the Political Bureau and the membership of the supreme body of the Free Egyptians Party in protest at the use of church in politics.

Dr. Mohammed Mokhtar Juma, minister of religious endowments, announced today to hold the conference of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs entitled "vision of imams and scholars about the renewal of religious discourse and counter extremist ideology" in Luxor.

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, announced to stop his weekly sermon since he will be traveling abroad in pastoral care visit to Sweden, Denmark and the United States.

Dr. Mohammed Mukhtar Juma, Minister of Awqaf, said that the terrorist group of the Muslim Brotherhood is trying to defame his reputation and threaten to assassinate him.

Dr. Mohamed Mukhtar Juma, Minister of Awqaf, said that the nomination of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for the Nobel Prize comes for his great effort to save Egypt and the region from the danger of terrorism and his work for peace in the Middle East.

Interior Ministry announced in a statement on Monday, it have arrested 30 leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood on charges of inciting violence against police and army as well as destroying public and private properties.

Interior Ministry announced in a statement on Monday, it have arrested 38 leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood on charges of inciting violence against police and army.

Majdi Shawki, one of those affected by the current Personal Status Law, demanded a civil legislation for marriage instead of the current personal status law.

Egyptian media aired a video for a bearded man who put a bomb inside a shop owned by a Coptic man. The bearded man claimed to be a customer while he was dropping the bomb inside the shop that exploded causing massive destruction.

Monastery of Archangel Gabriel in Fayoum celebrated the feast of Martyrs of Fayoum. The celebration was headed by Abba Abraam, Bishop of Fayum, Abba Salib, and Bishop of Mit Ghamr, Abba Isaac, General Bishop in Fayoum, and Abba Marcus, the general Bishop.

Copts celebrated this week the feast of consecrating the church of St. George in his monastery in Mit Damsis in the presence of Abba Bishoy, Bishop of Kafr el-Sheikh, Abba Dawoud, Bishop of Mansoura, and Abba Salib, Bishop of Mit Ghamr.