Abba Anthony Bishop of Jerusalem and the Near East, ordained three new Coptic priests for the first time in Kuwait.

Abba Anthony Bishop of Jerusalem and the Near East, ordained three new Coptic priests for the first time in Kuwait.

Dr. Saad Helaly, Islamic scholar, said that 99% of Islamic jurists refused testimony of non-Muslims against Muslims. This came after he was accused of issuance of wrong fatwas that testimony of non-Muslims against Muslims is not accepted in Islam. However, Dr. Helaly assured that he has issued no fatwas, and these are fatwas of Islamic jurists.

Coptic Church issued a statement on Monday to mourn the martyrs of the Egyptian police in El Arish. 20 armed terrorists have attacked security ambush killing 6 policemen and a civilian, and 12 people were injured and moved to hospital for treatment.

Pope Tawadros II and Ahmed Daif, Governor of Tanta, opened the new headquarters of the Archdiocese of Tanta on Tuesday.

Nabila Makram, Egypt’s Minister of Immigration, accompanied a delegation of Coptic youth of America, Italy, Spain and Canada to visit St. Peter Church in Cairo that witnessed recent terrorist attack.

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, attended Christmas party at Karma school at Maadi that belongs to Maadi diocese.

A masked person has broke into the backyard of the church at 3 am and wrote on the ground “Christians, you are going to die”.

Egyptian Fatwa House assured the importance of spreading love and peace in the community and that we shouldn’t hesitate to congratulate one another in such occasions.

Spokesman for the Coptic Orthodox Church said that Nil Hopkins, Australian Ambassador to Egypt, has visited Pope Tawadros to offer his sincere condolences to the Pope for the martyrs of St. Peter Church’s attack.

Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, expressed his solidarity with the victims of the bombing of St. Peter church in Cairo.

Abba Pfnotios, Bishop of Samalout, inaugurated on Sunday two new churches at St. Mina archaeological church that was built at the sixth century.

Coptic Orthodox Church announced in a statement that the celebration of Christmas will be held on time. Statement added that the Coptic martyrs of St. Peter church joined other martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the nation.

Father Poulos Halim, spokesman for the Coptic Orthodox Church, said that Abba Moussa, Bishop of youth, participated on Friday in mourning prayers for the martyrs of St. Peter Church terrorist attack held in St. Mary and St. Abraam Church in Briton.

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, received on Saturday leader of the German parliament (Bundestag) majority, Volker Kauder.

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, announced that he will cancel the weekly sermon for the coming two weeks.

222 trainees from 9 governorates from Upper Egypt have joined the third phase of Pope Tawadros’ training project.

Father Poulos Halim, spokesman for the Coptic Orthodox Church, said that Pope Tawadros II has received on Wednesday a delegation from the Coptic Church in Melbourne headed by Abba Suriel, Bishop of Melbourne.

Mokhtar Nouh, Islamic researcher, denounced the sectarian attacks by the Salafies at Naghamish village in Suhag governorate. He warned the Salafies that the Egyptian state has become stronger and will not allow such attacks without punishment.

Islam Buheiry, the Islamic scholar, denounced the situation of Al-Azhar that finds no need for the renewal of religious discourse. He added that Al-Azhar only denounces the terrorist attacks against police and army soldiers, but takes no move to renew the fanatic religious discourse and don’t accept to call ISIS infidels.

Media Centre of the Church interviewed Pope Tawadros to talk about his life in six episodes entitled “Pope of the Church”.