Masked armed men broke yesterday into a sanitary ware shop in Sohag and kidnapped its Coptic Christian owner at gunpoint and fled.

Unknown armed men have kidnapped Mariam Sedrak, 14 yeas old Coptic girl, who was accompanied by her mother, aunt and sister, while they were riding a cap.

Dr. Nady Y. Tanios, 57 year old Coptic Christian doctor, was kidnaped as he was driving home in Mallawy. In a phone call, the kidnappers have demanded one million EGP ransom.

Alaa Hakim, Coptic activist, told Copts United that a group of masked men have kidnapped a Coptic child during the break before Manfalout preparatory school in Assiut.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Gunmen on a motorcycle fired on Egyptian wedding guests outside a Coptic Christian church in a Cairo suburb on Sunday night, killing two people and wounding seven, security sources said.

Security forces in Minya have arrested 5 suspects on charges of attacking Coptic churches, police stations, and other public properties.

Members of the Muslim Brotherhood have assaulted a taxi driver because he was listening to a famous song that supports the army as he was passing by their demonstration in the street.

Family of a Coptic man called Magdy Masoud is still not able to return home after it was displaced couple of months ago.

Security forces in northern Sinai have arrested a Takfiri Element with military suits and masks in his possession.

Security forces in Minya have released a kidnapped Coptic Christian doctor called Maged Welson, 51, who was kidnapped at gunpoint while driving home.

The Muslim Brotherhood attacked the Copts during a demonstration last night. Three Copts were injured, and the matter is currently under investigation.

Security forces in Minya have arrested 24 suspects on charges of attacking police stations, Coptic churches and public properties.

Egypt’s police promised no traffic woes during the upcoming days, during which the Egyptian Muslims celebrate Eid Al Adha.

Egypt has notified the Interpol over about 165 allegedly "stolen" Egyptian antiquities that are on auction at London's privately-owned Bonhams.

Maher Youssef, head of the Swedish Coptic organization, told Copts United that all the Copts in Sweden as well as in Egypt should coincide on and support the quota system for the Copts in the parliament.

Suez prosecution has decided to renew imprisonment of 22 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Suez for 15 days on charges of inciting violence and burning churches, as well as public and private properties.

The Egyptian centre for Public Opinion research (Baseera) conducted a poll on the extent of Egyptians’ approval of the formation of the 50-member constitutional committee, and on the issues they deem most necessary for inclusion in the constitution, as well as their opinion on some of the constitution articles.

Supporters of toppled President Mohamed Morsy in Fayoum staged a march Wednesday in Abshoway to protest security crackdowns on the Muslim Brotherhood and what they called anti-coup protesters.

Three army conscripts and one police conscript were killed Thursday morning in a car bomb attack targeting a security checkpoint in the volatile Northern Sinai Peninsula, Egypt’s state news agency MENA reported.

It was 9 October 2011, and an unprecedented event had just occurred in Egypt. I recall checking my social media accounts and seeing a sea of blood on my Facebook wall as images filtered through of a terrible massacre. Our organisation was inundated with enquiries and suggestions about a proposed response following the brutal Maspero Massacre in downtown Cairo, which claimed dozens of lives and left more than 200 injured. The few hours of terror were captured by private media outlets and amateur video.

Coptic activists and movements have organized a candle-light demonstration at the second anniversary of Maspero massacre at the place of the massacre in front of the state television building.