Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, is going to visit Ethiopia on September 26 to celebrate the holy feast of the cross with the Ethiopian church, spokesman for the Coptic Orthodox Church said.
A group of Bedouins took over a piece of land belongs to a Coptic family at Amerya village at Alexandria while carrying machine guns to frighten the people.
Father Poktor Nashed, priest of St. Mary Church in Amiriya, Alexandria, called police to move and save the Copts in the village after several extremists attacked the church.
Family of the famous Zero student, Mariam Malak, is going to hold a press conference today in respond to the five-members committee that stated that the answer sheets that got zero marks belong to Mariam.
Council of Churches of Egypt mourned the departure of Rev. Manis Abdel Nour, pastor of the Evangelical Church in Doubbara Palace.
Pope Francis approved an amendment to the procedure prescribed by the Catholic church to invalidate marriages.
After Egypt’s prime minster, Ibrahim Mahlab was reported to have promised to look into the case of Mariam Malak, an independent committee was formed to investigate the case.
Wahid Shenouda, coordinator of September 9 demonstration, said they decided to cancel out the demonstration after they met with Abba Benjamin, Bishop of Menoufia, and several leaders of the church and discussed several issues with them.
Maspero Youth Union refused the demonstrations on September 9th in front of St. Mark Cathedral in Abbasiya, under the title of "The people are angry with the church”.
Interior Ministry refused to give permission for the anti-church demonstration on September 9 in front of St. Mark Cathedral in Abbasiya for security reasons.
Omar Marwan Egypt’s Acting Attorney General ordered the reopening of investigation at case of high school student who received zero marks in all her summer exams, and the transfer of the investigation from the control of Assiut to Cairo.
Father Poulos Halim, spokesman for the Coptic Orthodox Church, said that the Coptic student Mariam Malak, the famous Zero student, refused to meet with Pope Tawadros today.
Mary, the excellent student who got Zero in the exams of the secondary school, met today with the Egyptian Prime Minster Ibrahim Mehleb who received her as daughter and promised to reopen the investigation and return her rights.
Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark See, is going to meet with Mary, the excellent student who got Zero in the exams of the secondary school, in order to listen to her and support her.
One of the monks of the monastery of St. Makarios of Alexandria, Fayoum, said that Arab Contractors Company sent yesterday equipment to pave a pathway inside the monastery of Rayan Valley. Then, the monks showed the engineers of the company documents that prove the monastery has several antiquities that could be destroyed by this work.
A customary reconciliation session was held on Friday between Muslim and Coptic families in Sharona Island, Minya, where both families decided to wavier the police reports in order to release 9 defendants arrested in the clashes.
Wahid Shenouda, coordinator of protest against wrong way to handle church financial problems in front of St. Mark Cathedral in Abbasiya on September 9 denied the protest is against the Pope, and assured that it comes to fix wrong situation in the diocese and Personal Status Law.
Maspero Youth Union refused calls by some people to demonstrate against the Church on September 9 to achieve a list of demands to put pressure on the church.
Copts of Egypt coalition denounced calls to demonstrate against the church leaders on September 9 assuring that they only aim to make a cheap show or bargain.
Mariam Malak, the Coptic student who got zero % in high school final exams, sent a painful letter in short words to President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi asking him to help her in this crisis and that she had asked him before, but he did not respond. She told him in her letter that she has done its best for 11 years to achieve her goal.
Hundreds of churches in Europe rang their bells last Saturday in support of Christians in the Middle East at the feast of St. Mary.
Others
An Arabic language teacher from the Qabaa school in the Nozha district flogged a Coptic pupil ten years old named Bibawi Faragallah 40 times with an electric wire last week.