Sources in the Coptic Church said that Abba Pachomius, Bishop of Behira and five Western cities, is holding contacts with the Egyptian embassy in Libya to transfer the body of Ezzat Hakim, Coptic Christian who died in the Libyan prisons.

Commenting on burning a number of police stations, Dr. Mustafa Najjar, former MP, said it is so worrisome as many people talk about forming public militias to replace police, and these militias will be much worse than the police.

Dr. Esam el-Erian, Muslim Brotherhood leader, said there is an emergency meeting in Freedom and Justice party after the Supreme Administrative Court had issued a political judgment to delay House of Representatives elections.

Dr. Naguib Gebrael, head of the Egyptian Federation for Human Rights, said that throughout the history of the Coptic Church, it was neither a threat nor a harm for the state.

Dr. Naguib Gebrael, head of the Egyptian Federation for Human Rights, said that a number of civil Coptic leaders have rejected the invitation of John Kerry, U.S. Secretary of State, to meet with them and talk about the current situation in Egypt.

Abdel Halim Kandil, political thinker, said on Twitter that interior ministry has used prohibited weapons against the demonstrators in Mansoura.

“Headline” program aired on ON TV private television has interviewed a couple of students from different schools who were punished for missing prayers and not wearing veil.

Egyptian press said yesterday that government will rent many Egyptian antiquities for 200 billion EGP, as part of an evil plan to smuggle and rob them.

Administrative Court ruled today to cancel the presidential decision to allow governors to prevent or permit church building, modification or expansions.

Dr. Essam el-Erian, prominent leader in the Muslim Brotherhood, said that he doesn't think there is a crime behind ballon accident in Luxor yesterday, in which 19 tourist have died, and similar accidents happen all over the world.

Four Christians were killed in Burj Al Arab after a rumor says that they were trying to build a church on their land.

Great Egyptian poet Ahmed Fouad Negm has invited all Egyptians to boycott the upcoming parliamentary elections.

Dr. Mohammed El-Baradei, founder of the Constitution party, called to boycott the upcoming parliamentary elections in order to expose the fake democracy of the current regime.

Mohammed el-Baradei said on Twitter that the current regime has lost legitimacy after all these barbarian torturing crimes.

After Engy Shafik, 17, had dissapeared last week in Minya, her family reported the police, but the police told then: "we've got nothing to do, indeed we can do nothing!"

However more than 20 reports were presented to the Attorney General against Sheikh Abu Islam, no action was taken to stop him.

Maher Abbas, MB leader in Beni Suef, said in public conference that the conflict and dispute in Egypt are between Islam and secularism.

Journalist Nagi William said that a series about the biography of Pope Shenouda III from birth to death is about to be produced. This series will cost about 40 million EGP

In his meeting with members of National Council for Human Rights, Abram Louis, founder of the Association of victims of abduction and enforced disappearance, has demanded the re-activation of advice and guidance sessions prior to change one's religion.

(AINA) -- On December 23, 2012, 13-year-old Agape Essam Girgis from the village of Nahda, el-Ameriya, near Alexandria, went to school as usual. Failing to return home, the family knew that she went out of school accompanied by the Muslim social worker Heba and two teachers, one of the them a Salafist. She stayed missing for 9 days during which the family and sympathizers organized a sit-in in front of the renowned Alexandria Library. The Coptic Church in Alexandria also organized a conference on December 30 on the abduction of Coptic girls, with focus on Agape, which was attended by journalists and the public.

Mohamed Anwar Sadat, Chairman of the Reform and Development Party, threatened that he's going to resort to the African Court of Human Rights if the investigation has achieved nothing, especially after Hamada has denied he was assaulted by policemen in spite of the video that shows him being stripped nude and beaten up by policemen, as well as statements of his family that he is lying.