Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, expressed her grave concern over the destruction of Mar Elia monastery in Iraq. She said that such attack against 1400 years old monastery comes against the Iraqi people as well as humanity.

Father Tadros Beshnwda, priest of the Church of the St. George in Atlidm village, said that the church refused to pray for the deceased according to regulations of the church.

Pope Tawadros II, congratulated president Abdul Fattah al-Sisi on national police day as well as the fifth anniversary of the revolution of January 25.

Council of Churches of Egypt celebrates its third anniversary on March 15 at the headquarters of the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services.

Hany Ezzat, founder of the victims of the Personal Status issues said he will organize a demonstration in front of the Parliament to demand civil marriage for Christians.

Three small churches are being reconstructed at the monastery of St. Mary in Delga by the armed forces. Furthermore, Fathery Ayyoub Youssef, priest of the Catholic church in Delga, said he has recived a phone call from the armed forces to tell him that the service building of the church is going to be reconstructed as well.

Mohammed Abdul Zahir, Governor of Alexandria, visited Pope Tawadros in the Papal headquarters in Alexandria to congratulate him and the Coptic Christian people on the feast of Epiphany.

Mariam Younan, deputy of the Good Shepherd Monastery in Suez, said that the Engineering Department of the Armed Forces started the reconstruction work of the monastery today.

Several churches in Giza governorate are waiting for reconstruction after they were demolished in 2013 after the dispersal of Rabaa Adawia and Nahda sit-ins.

Father Ayoub Youssef, Priest of the Catholic Church in Delga, received a phone call from the armed forces telling him that the church will be reconstructed by the armed forces.

Father Boktor Saad, priest of the Church of the Virgin Mary in Kafr Hakim, Kerdasa, demanded the officials to complete the restoration of the church that was demolished after the dispersal of Rabaa Adawia and Nahda sit-ins.

Engineering Department of the Armed Forces visited the demolished churches in Fayoum, south of Cairo, to start reconstructing them in few days.

During their pastoral care visit to Australia, Abba Moussa, Bishop of youth, and Abba Paula, Bishop of Tanta, met today with the Ethiopian community in Sydney.

Abba Makarios, bishop of Minya, said that the armed forces arrived today to the headquarters of St. Moussa Church in Minya to start rebuilding the church that was burned by the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization in August 14, 2013.

For the first time in history, an Egyptian court accepted a civil marriage of a Christian Egyptian couple. This was considered a shift in the Personal Status File Coptic Christians who couldn’t apply for civil marriage before.

Abba Agathon, Bishop of Maghagha, opens the church of St. George and St. Philopatir in Belhasa village after its restoration after it was burned on August 14, 2013, after the dispersal of Rabaa Adawia and Nahda sit-ins.

Mkanoti Coptic family renewed its demands to restore its lands, which is seized by Muslim family Ameria village in Alexandria.

Anba Abraham Isaac, patriarch of Catholics in Egypt, headed a congregation today to visit Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, in order to congratulate him on Christmas.

ISIS in northern Iraq, put explosives in old bridges and prominent churches in order to explode them in case of receiving any attacks.

Isaac Ibrahim, Coptic activist, denounced statement of Al-Azhar that accuses Coptic church of being responsible for a satellite channel called al-Hayat that attacks Islam in its programs.

Monk Sarabamoun of St. Bishoy denied rumors of closing monasteries of Wadi Natrun because of terrorist threats.