Militants of the Islamic State executed 12 Christians near Halab in a brutal manner, including a twelve years old boy, after they had refused to deny their faith and embrace the Islamic religion.
Sectarian clashes have erupted in the village of Com-Rahib in Minya in which 8 Copts were injured. The quarrel started between two students at the primary school, one of them is Christian. Later, the family of the Muslim boy attacked the house of the Christian family, demolished and looted it.
In a customary reconciliation session between the Muslim and Coptic family in Ameriya village, Alexandria, the Coptic Christians were demanded not to go to church for 4 months and not to approach their land!
Father Ayoub Yousif, priest of St. George Catholic Church in Delga, demanded the authorities to enlist the services building to the repairing list of churches, which was burned after the dispersal of Rabaa Adawia and Nahda sit-ins in August 2013.
Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria And Patriarch of St. Mark See, hosts the meeting of MECC at the great Cathedral of St. Mark in Abbasia on November 3,4th.
Coptic family that was subject to attacks of the fanatics in America village, Alexandria, told Copts United that the situation is currently stable.
Father Luke Asaad, priest of St. Mary Church in Rashid, called president Abdul Fattah al-Sisi to intervene and save the only church in Rashid from being demolished.
Ramy Qashwa, coordinator of the Maspero Youth Union in Alexandria, said he was an eyewitness to the events of Amiriya. He explained that the fanatics stoned the church as the police were trying return a piece of land to a Christian man that was seized by a Muslim family.
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.
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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.