Many Christians in Alexandria signed a statement to ask Abba Pachomius, acting Patriarch to prevent nominating bishops with dioceses for the papacy as this is against the laws of the Church.

Naguib Gebrael, head of the Egyptian Federation for Human Rights has formed a team from the federation to contact authorities in Saudi Arabia and also meet with the Saudi ambassador in Cairo and human rights organizations to help solving the crisis of the Egyptian citizen Mohammed al-Gizawy who traveled to Saudi Arabia to perform minor hajj and was arrested for charges of abusing the king.

Central Committee of national awareness in Alexandria, which includes a number of secular members of the Church, has issued a statement saying that a number of mass media was noticed trying to spread rumors about the Copts to draw attention away from other group that have many problems concerning politics and credibility.

Hamdeen Sabahi, the presidential candidate told Al-Jazeera live channel that it is not for the good of Muslim Brotherhood to insist on having a presidential candidate.

Dr. Naguib Gebrael, head of the Egyptian Federation for Human Rights made an opinion poll for the Copts about which presidential candidate they are going to vote for in the coming presidential elections.

Khalid Ali, a likely candidate for presidential elections is taking a legal action against the head of the Supreme Committee for the presidential elections to investigate the huge advertisements in the streets of Cairo which carries the words “The President” to know who is behind such expensive ads. Ali added that all Egyptians should know who is behind such advertisements and if this exceeds the legal budget.

Bishop Pachmios, the acting pope has decided to allow only the visitors who got a stamped permission from the Patriarchate to visit St. Bishoy monastery where the shrine of his holiness Pope Shenouda III. This comes after 8 people had died yesterday because of the massive crowds at the shrine.

Dr. Naguib Gebrael, the head of the Egyptian Federation for Human Rights said that the Supreme State Security Prosecution ordered today the arrest of the Islamic preacher Wagdi Ghoneim wherever he is and placed him on no travel list.

The supreme state security prospection has listened to Dr. Naguib Gebrael, head of the Egyptian Federation for Human Rights in the case against Sheik Wagdy Ghonaim.

Copts United knew that Christian representatives in the committee to draft the new constitution have withdrawn after the withdrawal of Al-Azhar representatives as well as the Islamic researches assembly members because of the controlling attitude of the Muslim Brotherhood group.

The Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church issued a statement yesterday demanding the observance of human rights in the new Constitution of Egypt.

Dr. Michel Fahmy, writer and political thinker said in an interview at CTV, Coptic satellite channel that Pope Shenouda has unified Egypt during his life, and he unified it even more by his death. He added that the whole world mourned Pope Shenouda III.

In this video from the Norwegian documentary, Tarek Heggy, liberal thinker and political writer talks about political Islam and Muslim Brotherhood group. He talks about the attempts to Islamize Europe against the valuable system in Europe that made the human being the core and goal of it. Heggy talks about the danger that Muslims Brotherhood bringing to Europe as they don’t believe in human rights, equality, democracy and other values that built Europe. Heggy calls Europe to build systems to integrate the Muslims of Europe into the society and make them believe in its values. He also talks about political wave of Islam in many countries all over the world. And that MB preaches mainly a political agenda rather than a religious call.

Tom Trento, the director of the Florida Security Council, talks about the danger of ultra-conservative Muslims and extremists on the United States of America and the American Constitution. He points out to the hatred of many Muslims for the Jews, and how they think that suicide bombing and terrorism are justified, as well as their strong loyalty to Islam over their countries. He also compares between American Constitution and Sharia Law.

Dr. Naguib Gebrael, the head of the Egyptian Federation for Human Rights asked the Egyptian Prime Minister to issue a commemorative banknote for the departure of Pope Shenouda III. Gabriel said that such banknote can bring 6 billion pounds to the state treasury to compensate for the deficit in the budget. This banknote may be of 1000 pounds - 500 pounds - 100 pounds - 50 pounds.

Dr. Naguib Gebrael, the head of the Egyptian Federation for Human Rights, sent an urgent message to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and king of Saudi Arabia, Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, denouncing the fatwa of the Mufti of Saudi Arabia which calls for demolishing the churches of the Arabian Peninsula. Gebrael explained in his letter that such racist fatwa about demolishing the churches will result in undermining the dialogue between Muslims and Christians as well as the calls for co-existence which were initiated by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques more than three years ago.

Upon the meeting of the Holy Synod at Patriarch Headquarters in Abba Ruis today at 11 AM with the general congregation council and Coptic Awqaf committee, 4 statements were issued about choosing the surrogate of the Pope and nominating for the office of the Pope.

Law office of Coptic diaspora in Switzerland headed by Dr. Awad Shafik, professor of international law with Dr. Shetwy Abdalla, an international lawyer in Sweden, Dr. Hanna Hanna, lawyer and Dr. Wagdi Thabet, professor of constitutional law and civil liberties at the University of France has prepared a Coptic document contains some proposals and constitutional principles that comes from international charters of human rights and should be included in the new constitution.

From the official page of Giza Bishopric on Face book

Today, more than 300 lawyers of Salafists and Islamic groups gathered before the hall of the Court of Assiut that witnesses the trial of the Coptic Makarim Diab who is accused of defamation of the Islamic religion. Diab was sentenced to 6 years two weeks ago by the court of Abnoub without having a lawyer! And today was the appeal hearing, but his lawyer found dozens of lawyers threatening to kill him and preventing him from entering the court.

Dr. Michael Fahmy, the political writer, said that the Muslim Brotherhood had a big role in the travel of NGO foreign members in such way, and the cas has been over exaggerated by media, while their problem was only that they work without permission.