In April 2013, the Cathedral of St. Mark in Abbasiya was attacked and 3 Copts were killed and 84 were injured. The perpetrators were likely searching for weapons in the church or Coptic women who have converted into Islam and are still trapped in the church according to many stories spread by fanatics. They were likely searching for a reason to justify their attacks on Christian houses and churches. Ever since, the fascist regime was collapsing and this attack was a step towards overthrowing the regime of the Muslim Brotherhood. During the transitional period from July 2013 to June 2014, Copts were subject to many sectarian attacks as a price to pay by the Copts for supporting President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, and they are still supporting him.

In his wonderful book Kirialison in the love of the Copts , Hamdi Rizk wrote that his book is a gift for the Copts at the Christmas Day. He said that these are lines of love erupted from the moment of the bombing of the Saints Church in January 2011 until the opening of the new Cathedral in 2018 by President Abdelfattah Al Sisi. As a Coptic citizen, I accept such lovely gifts including his writings and TV program in which he discusses problems of citizenship as a loyal Egyptian citizen. The book also talks about the church and its internal affairs as well as the Pope and the guardians of the faith. It also deals with the relation between the Pope and Sheikh of Al-Azhar as well as the position of the Salafis and the Muslim Brotherhood. He included dialogues with His Holiness Pope Twadros II, and His Holiness Pope Shenouda III, in addition to a number of meetings with a number of Egypt thinkers.

One of the most important lessons of life is that life is a journey that will eventually come to an end. Thus, we need to enjoy everything of it including the bad things as they teach us something. The next time you suffer some difficulties; don t let them hinder you for a long time. Instead, get over them and always put a smile on your face. Life deserves better than being wasted because of bad relationship or relatives. Always look at the bright side and enjoy your life appreciating what you have instead of thinking of what you don t.

In his last speech, Sisi tried to warn Egyptians from what he called, “The evil.” Sisi confirmed and emphasized that he will prevent any corrupted person from sitting on the Chair of Presidency. Sisi was speaking as if he was a dictator who can allow and prevent whoever he wants from becoming President. I was hoping that Sisi would rely on the law and courts to prevent any corrupted people from electing themselves as a President. However, it appears that Sisi is relying only on himself, much like Dictators would.

At the time many extremists think that religion aims mainly at ruining others lives in order to force them to embrace their extremists ideas, some people call to develop the understanding of religion, which may be called renewal of religious discourse as well. Those developers may do so thinking religion aims basically at offering a better life for human beings and following the rule: Islam is the Religion of Ease. One of those developers is Sheikh Mostafa Rashid, Mufti of Australia and New Zealand, president of the World Union of Islamic Scholars for Peace, who issued a new book entitled (a correction to the old jurisprudence), which was presented at the Cairo International Book Fair. In the book he explained that many ideas embraced by Muslims around the world are not true including Hijab and niqab.

A group of Egyptian youth decided to take good care of the Egyptian city of Shalatin. 35 of fine arts students took their tools and traveled south to clean and decorate the kiosks of Halayeb and Shalateen. The Egyptian male and female students decided to show their love for the homeland by decorating a dear, yet far part of it. Greetings to those true Egyptians who proved their love by hard working. They dedicated their time and money to produce wonderful artworks that made the beautiful town even more beautiful.

A presidential amnesty was issued on January 25, 2018 by president Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, but there is a number of Copts whose names were not included in that list. The first name is Gergis Baroumi who was accused of raping a girl from Farshout, but the medical report confirmed that the girl was not raped and that the accused suffers from a lack of sexual ability!

Those who study the political scene in Egypt find an absence of a political reason, especially concerning the choices of candidates of the parliamentary elections. The candidates during the previous elections didn t have election program or objectivity. Unfortunately, this randomness appeared clearly in several meetings in the Council that were held to discuss important laws as the political education starts at the parties, which have disappeared long time ago. The parties now can only fight over elections without having a political vision.

I have talked in the last article about the danger of leaving the political life empty especially that during the last four years of Sisi period, we didn t see any try to refresh the political life. What does this mean? In my opinion that means that Sisi wants to run for more than 2 periods and that for sure requires to amend the constitution and that what we can see and feel from the last statement by the chief of the parliament.

As the presidential race has started in Egypt, it became clear that President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi will win another round in the presidency of Egypt. This raises questions about challenges he will face in the second round. The list is too long, but the economic situation and financial difficulties comes above all right next to fighting terrorism and security situation. Many projects have been carried out in Egypt, but the citizens are suffering under high inflation rates and increasing prices.

We have talked before about the Marathon of Luxor, and today we are talking about the preparations of Karnak to receive people with special needs, in the framework of an integrated plan prepared by the governor Mohammed Badr and one of the institutions caring for people with special needs and sponsored by a telecommunications company. This plan aims to qualify Luxor to be a Handicapped-Tourist-Friendly city. This development started with Karnak, Luxor and the Luxor Museum by providing them with accessible designs to help people with disabilities during their visit. The plan aims to extend the project to the whole city of Luxor in order to be soon the first Handicapped-Tourist-Friendly city in Egypt. Greetings to the respected governor of Luxor who innovate and carry out such great projects.

When do the series of assaults on the Copts come to an end? I mean those assaults where the assailants are never punished and the Copts have to pay for some forms of intolerance, ignorance, deterioration of education, widespread illiteracy, and hatred of the others. Some Copts were attacked in the village of Dawar, Behira governorate as one Coptic worker decided to claim his right after he did some work worth 300 EGP! The Muslim party claimed the Coptic worker has harassed his wife and therefore houses of several Copts were attacked. Some angry mobs decided to to disrupt public order and endanger the safety and security of society and the damage to national unity and social peace. They gave themselves the right to intimidate and destroy properties of the Copts. Those are criminals and should be punished according to the law.

The Coptic Christians are used to eat taro and reeds at the feast of Epiphany, which commemorates the baptizing of Jesus Christ in Jordan River.

Recently, I had the opportunity to celebrate New Years eve and Epiphany in a church that I had not visited in a while. Looking around at the congregation, I found myself wondering, “Is everyone as nervous as I am?” Yes, I am not going to stop going to church just because something might happen. But at the same time, what if something does happen?

The Egyptian state is not able to defend the Copts, a message meant to be sent by unmasked elements of ISIS terrorist group in Al-Arish. The message was not written on papers, but on the dead body of Bassem Shehata Haraz, a 27-year-old Copt from Al-Arish, who was shot dead on January 13rd in his hometown.

Usain Bolt is a retired Jamaican sprinter, who is 32 years old. He is the first person to hold both the 100 metres and 200 metres world records since fully automatic time became mandatory. He also holds the world record as a part of the 4 × 100 metres relay.

The birth of Christ was a reason for progress of all humankind and taught humans to move from pride to humility. Christ the God became man and was born poor to teach us humility.

Egypt s People s Assembly elections in 2015 came after one year after the presidential election, which was won by President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi. This happened after the Revolution of June 30 against the Muslim Brotherhood. The Egyptians were hoping for a democratic civil state headed by a civil government and an elected parliament that represents several liberal political parties aiming to serve the state and its citizens.

In the coming few months the presidential election will occur and from what we can see that the current regime doesn t have any will to improve the political life or even consider it. For the first time in the history we see people from political parties announce their support to a person outside of this party.