Father Mikhail Antoine, Vice President of the Committee for the legalizaion of Orthodox Churches, said that the Committee had received promises to speed up the procedures for the legalization of churches. He added only 212 churches and a building were legalized, since the law was passed adn about 2500 churches are still waiting.

Copts celebrated the new Coptic year with eating speical food, namely: Red dates and guava, which referes to the blood of the martyrs and their strong faith. Vendors of dates and guava sold their goods in front of the churches as Copts celebrate Nayrouz by eating those fruits.

After inaugrating thechuch of St. Mary in Aleppo , Syria, Mar Ignatius Joseph III Jonan, Patriarch of Syriac Catholics, celebrated the first holy mass. 6 deadons were ordianed in the celebration of the church, which was attended by Archbishop Mario Zinari, Archbishop of Aleppo, Archbishop Mar Desnosius, Archbishop of Hasakah, Archbishop Yacoub Bahanan, Archbishop of Baghdad, Patriarchal Vicar for Basra and the Arabian Gulf.

Spokesman of the Coptic Orthodox Church said that Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See is going to visit the United States of America for the third time. The pastoral care visit will be held in a couple of weeks.

John Casein, British Ambassador in Cairo, published a Farwell message to the Egyptians at the end of his work in Egypt. He said he has been proud to work in Egypt and will mess Egypt and the Egyptians and will always be a big fan of Mohammed Salah. He added that Egypt became one of the biggest economic partners of Britain.

Michael Atef, son of a martyr of St. Samuel monastery terrorist attack, donated 200 EGP for the construction of a mosque in Minya. Minya Awqaf is going to honor Michael stressing the national unity among all Egyptians.

A report published by CNN Arabic said that Egypt is the fastest growing tourism destination in the world. Report said: With a significant increase in the number of tourists by 55.1 %, Egypt has made the fastest tourism recovery in 2017.

Mahmoud Shaarawi, Egypt s Minister of Local Development said today in a news conference that the government is working on legalizing Auto rickshaw in order to solve its problem. He added that some companies are working on developing a mobile application similar to UBER to make Auto rickshaw valid on demand.

Pope Tawadros II said the murder of Abba Epiphanius, head of St. Makar monastery was an accident that can t spoil the monastic life that has started many centuries ago. This came during the 40 days memorial service of Abba Epiphanius headed by Pope Tawadros and attended by several bishops of the Coptic Church.

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) announced on Wednesday that Egypt s foreign currency reserves rose to US $44.41 billion in August, compared to $44.31 billion in July. Egypt s foreign exchange reserves were around $36 billion before the January 25 Revolution of 2011. It fell down to nearly $19 billion until a $12 billion loan was signed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in November 2016. The flotation of the Egyptian pound and high interest rates helped attract foreign investments for government debt instruments, which reached about $23 billion at the end of March.

Dozens of worshippers were buried alive under the rubble of a Catholic Church that collapsed during celebrating the holy mass on Sunday. St. Paul Catholic church that collapsed is located in the southwestern state of Delta in Nigeria.

The Coptic Orthodox Church will hold the mass of the 40th day anniversary of the departure of Abba Epiphanius, head of St. Makar monastery. Pope Tawadros presides over the memorial service on September 8th and will open a new conference building carrying the name of the late bishop.

Prosecution of Minya ordered that 19 defendants at the sectarian attacks of Demshaw Hashim village will be imprisoned for 4 days pending investigations. They were accused of inciting violence and attacking other people for building an unlicensed church.

Iman Maher Said, 19 year old, has disappeared in Assiut. Her family mentioned that she left home to visit the church on Friday and never returned back. Police were reported and the matter is currently under investigation.

His Holiness Pope Tawadros II opened first gathering of young Copts from all over the world at the Papal headquarters in Wadil Natroun. The gathering was entitled Joy which is the appreciation of Jesus Copts of Egypt.

Church sources confirmed that Pope Tawadros II will make a pastoral visit to the United States of America on 13 September.

A group of Coptic youth held signs in the streets of Minya governorate to congratulate Muslims on the Adha feast. Muslims thanked them for the nice gesture and assured the unity of the Egyptian people.

Abba Karas, Bishop of Pennsylvania, issued a statement to warn against dealing with or donating to the unrecognized monastery of St. John. The monastery was established by Abba Botros, the general bishop but has not followed the decisions of the Monastic and Monastic Affairs Committee to monitor the unrecognized monasteries which makes it unrecognized monastery by the Coptic Orthodox Church.

Abba Younis, Bishop of Assiut, said that the number of visitors to the monastery of St. Mayr in Dronka, Assiut, has increased this yeaer to 3 million visitors.

Medhat Oweida declares his candidacy to run in the federal Conservative nomination for the riding of Mississauga Streetsville. Medhat is a proud resident of Mississauga Streetsville with a background in law, social work, media and human rights activist. He has served the community with a strong passion for great Canadian heritage. His passion to run in the federal Conservative nomination for the riding of Mississauga Streetsville is to implement core service values rooted in Andrew Scheer s platform and vision for a Conservative Government in upcoming election. “I am proud and honored to announce my candidacy to run in the federal Conservative nomination for the riding of Mississauga Streetsville. As an active member of the community, I have seen the frustrations, insecurities and founded disappointments with Liberal diverted vision of Canadian ideals of the people of Mississauga Streetsville. “The primary goal is to be an advocate for the people.”

Abba Daniel, Bishop of Maadi, and the secretary of the Holy Synod, denied rumors about intentions to ordain a new bishop for St. Makar monastery assuring that such decision belongs to Pope Tawadros II. He also denied the transfer of a number of monks from the monastery to other Coptic monasteries or assigning the supervision of the monastery to Abba Makar, bishop of Sharkia.