St. Mary Church in Samalout, Minya, organized a training session for 1000 servants on the skills of ecclesiastical education. The course included the biblical characteristics of Effective Education and the personality of the servants.

Bishops Gregory and Paisel of southern USA visited today St. Mark Cathedral in Alexandria where they were received by Bishop Bavly of Montazah. They made a tour at the Cathedral of St. Mark and visited the tomb of the Patriarchs and learned about the history of the ancient church.

The Monastery of St. Mina in Mariot continues to construct the Church of the Saints for the martyrs of the terrorist attack at the Saints Church in Alexandria in 2011. The shrine of the Palm Sunday 8 martyrs who were killed in another terrorist attack at St. Mark Cathedral in Alexandria in 2017.

Bishop Moussa of Youth Bishopric and Raphael of Central Cairo Churches will hold a meeting next Friday with ministers of the activities of Youth Bishopric all over Egypt. The meeting will be held in the Greater Cathedral of St. Mark in Abbasia as part of the annual events organized by the Youth Bishopric.

Archbishop Serapion of Los Angeles, Southern California and Hawaii, opened of the Church of Saint Philopatir Abu Seifin and St. Abram. He said that Pope Tawadros II is going to inaugurate the church in his next visit to the United States of America.

Bishop Daniel of Sydney inaugurated yesterday monument and garden of the first Coptic church in Australia. The church is located at Sydenham , Sidney, and was established by the late Father Mina Nematallah, the first Coptic priest in Australia.

Bishop Boutros of Shebin Al-Qanater ordained on Tuesday a new priest for the ministry in the diocese. The new priest is Father Pachoum Gharieb headed to the monastery of St. Mina in Mariout.

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) announced on Tuesday an increase in the Foreign currency reserve by around $1.5 billion. CBE said in a statement that net international reserves has increased to 44060.2 million US dollars at the end of February 2019.

Bishop Isaac or Tima ordained today 69 deacons at the Cathedral of St. Fam of Osim in Tima. The new deacons were ordained at the basic rank of Ebsaltus which is translated chanter after they have passed the exams prepared by the church.

Bishop Estifanos of Beba and Al-Fashn headed the Holy Mass at St. Athanasius Church in Donval Park in Melbourne, Australia as part of the pastoral visit to the city from February 25 to March 3rd. Bishop Estifanos is going to celebrate several holy masses and will deliver several sermons in meetings with the congregation.

Dr. Essam El-Kordy, presidet of Alexandria University, and HG Bishop Bavly, Bishop General of the Montazah Churches, inaugurated the headquarters of the Institute of Coptic Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University. El-Kordy said that the new institute emphasizes the Egyptian identity and the unity of Egyptians over the ages and will take care of Coptic art, history and language. For his part, Bishop Bavli stressed the importance of this event and thanked the Alexandria University leaders for their great role in opening the institute.

On February 24, a number of Ethiopian Christians attended the Holy Mass at the Coptic Orthodox Church in Japan. The Church of St. Mary and St. Mark in Japan was recently opened by Pope Tawadros II, which is the very first Coptic Church in Japan.

The first book about the 21 Coptic martyrs in Libya was recently published in English by author Martin Mosebach, the German writer on the fourth anniversary of their martyrdom. The writer visited the village of Aour where the majority of the martyrs were born and raised and wrote about their faith, families, and even the miracles that were made by their intercession. It is worth mentioning that he had a another book about the martyrs published in 2018 in German.

Bishop Daniel of Sidney promoted Father David Mahrous, priest of St. Mary Church in Calamvale, Queensland, to the rank of Hegumine on Saturday. Fr David Mahrous was born in 1978 in Kuwait. He moved to Sydney, NSW in 1989, and graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Pharmacy in 1998. He served in St Marys Cathedral as a Deacon, Sunday School Servant and Coordinator of youth activities among other things. On the 30th of May, 2004, he was ordained by the hands of HH Pope Shenounda III and called to serve St Mary and St Josephs Coptic Orthodox Church, Brisbane.

Sharopim and Faraj are two brothers who work as contractors and loved building churches in Alexandria that they built more than 25 churches since they arrived from Upper Egypt.

St. George Church in Sporting, Alexandria concluded its annual youth week today. This year witnessed the 15th conference entitled ‘My Christ and myself’ from February 11-14th with the participation of several bishops and clergy and hundreds of the youth.

The prosecution in Zagazig renewed the imprisonment for 4 students on charges of defamation of Chrsitanity after publishing a video on YouTube ridiculing Christian believes and prayers. It is worth mentioning that 4 Coptic children had been sentenced to 5 years in prison after publishing a video ridiculing ISIS after slain of 21 Copts in Libya.

A delegation from UNICEF visited Tal Basta archeological area in the framework of reviving the journey of the Holy Family project, after the inclusion of Sharqia province in the course of the journey of the Holy Family. Father Matias Yaacoub, priest of the Church of Our Lady and St. John the Apostle, said that Sharqia is the first major point where the Holy Family settled in Egypt and witnessed the most important 3 miracles in the journey of the Holy Family in Egypt.

Metropolitan Tadros of Portsaid visited today Pope Shenouda III Center in Long Point, west of Sydney after celebrating the holy mass at the church of St. Abraam in the center. He sermonized about avoiding the sin of hypocrisy and urged the sons of the Church to embrace the teachings of Christ in that account.

Bishop Markos of Shubra al-Khaymah said that the birth of Christ is a birth of the whole world, but the celebration this year was different since the president Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has opened the biggest Cathedral in the Middle East and offered to the Copts. He added that we thank the president for fulfilling his promise to open the Cathedral in January 2019.