Supporters of the Salafi candidates at Ameriya village, Alexandria, attacked Coptic voters in order to prevent them from voting. They also insulted Christianity and cursed the Coptic Christians.
The Islamic movements are still trying to trade on religion in order to gain some political benefits and win the parliamentary elections in certain places.
Abba Moussa, Bishop of Youth, left hospital today after receiving medical treatment. He stayed at hospital for 5 days, and several Copts were praying for his recovery.
Father Poulos Halim, spokesman for the Coptic Orthodox Church, said that Pope Tawadros II will arrive to Cairo tomorrow after a pastoral care visit to America that lasted for three weeks.
Torrential rains lashed Alexandria causing the death of 6 people and the governor to resign. The people were electrocuted to death when a cable from a tramway fell into a street flooded with water. Several churches were also flooded with water and armed forces are trying to save the city.
Father Polous Halim, spokesman for the Coptic Orthodox Church, said that the Vatican has not sent an official letter concerning the unified date of Easter.
Hany Ezzat, coordinator of victims of personal status movement, demanded a civil law of marriage for non-Muslims.
Mina Asaad, spokesman for the protectors of faith association, said that statements of head of the ultra conservative al-Nour party in which he said that only the law has forced them to nominate the Copts on their electoral lists, reveals facts of the Salafis.
Coptic family in Ameriya village, Alexandria denied reconciliation with the Muslim family according to customary session. It added that they got court verdict that the litigated land belongs to them.
The Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Melbourne issued a statement today to reveal facts about the attack on the church there.
At the fourth anniversary of the "Maspero massacre", the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights condemned the absence of justice at investigations at the Massacre. Politicians and security officials were not investigated.
Hoty Muslim family escalated its dispute with the Makanoty Christen family by starting to build a mosque on land of the Coptic Christian family.
Dr. Suzy Nashed, former MP, said that she visited Abba Pachomius with other electoral candidates to receive his blessings, and not his support in the upcoming elections.
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.
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