Tight security measures were taken by Assiut directorate of security around the monastery of the Virgin Mary Jebel Dronka to coincide with the celebrations of the feast of St. Mary.

Shortly, with the prayers of the His Holiness Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St Mark, His Grace Bishop Daniel El Antouny, the head of the Monastery of St Shenouda The Archimandrite in Sydney/NSW will head the 20th year anniversary celebration since the inauguration, by his Holiness Pope Shenouda III, God bless his soul. The Monastery passed into 3 stages to reach its current flourishing status of a well established Monastery recognized by The Holy Synod. The idea came in 1990 from Dr. Medhat Guirgis – The Secretary of the NSW State Board of The Coptic Orthodox Church at the time and his wife Dr. Sara Fuirgis – to give a present from the son and daughter to their Father H H Pope Shenouda III. H H devoted his life to re-build the old un-occupied monasteries and promote monasticism in the Coptic Orthodox Church. This would provide the NSW Diocese with one of the pillars of the Coptic Orthodox Church. The hard work to establish the Monastery was completed with the prayers and blessings of H H Pope Shenouda by the Very Reverend Fr Tadros Elbakhoumi who was experienced in the construction of monasteries after successfully re-building the ancient St Bakhomious Monastery in Edfo in the 1970’s.

Evangelical Church has announced its support for the unified law of Personal Status and it has formed Committees of Legal and theological affairs in the Evangelist council for discussing this matter and it will last until the end of the month.

Mariam Malak, the Coptic student who got zero % in high school final exams, sent a painful letter in short words to President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi asking him to help her in this crisis and that she had asked him before, but he did not respond. She told him in her letter that she has done its best for 11 years to achieve her goal.

Bishops of the Orthodox churches offered their sincere condolence on the death of the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's mother.

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark See, is going to give his weekly sermon and heads Vespers prayer in the church of Virgin Mary and Abba Bishoy Church in the great papal in Abbasiya, today after he had stopped for forty-days.

National Security Police directed security crackdowns around all the governorates, which led to the arrest 3 escaped defendant, 20 gang, 500 weapons, 1475 white weapons and 82 stolen cars.

Mounir Sami, lawyer of the Coptic accused of evangelizing Medhat Isaac, told Copts United that there is no legal provision criminalizing the distribution of religious books.

Hundreds of churches in Europe rang their bells last Saturday in support of Christians in the Middle East at the feast of St. Mary.

Four people were injured in a fight between a Coptic and Muslim family in Sharona village, Minya. A carpentry workshop and a house were also destroyed during the fight.

Egypt Council of Churches decided to appoint Father Rafik Grish, spokesman for the Catholic Church, as head of the Media Committee of the Egyptian Council of Churches.

Egyptian police announced the arrest of 22 leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization. 18 members of the terrorist group were also arrested on charges of inciting violence acts against police and army.

The Protestant Church holds a meeting today headed by Presbyter Andria Zaki, head of the Protestant Church in Egypt, to discuss the new family affairs legislation enacted for all Christians.

HG Abba Pemwa bishop of Suez announces a new resolution regarding weddings to be applied in all churches of Suez starting on Sunday following St. Mary’s Feast.

Fr. Rafik Greish, spokesman of the Catholic Church, reported that The Egyptian Council of Churches (ECC), His Holiness Patriarch Ibrahim Isaac, patriarch of the Catholic Church, and His Holiness Gregorius Laham, patriarch of the Roman Catholic Church in Egypt, sent their condolences to President Al-Sisy on his mother’s death

The Egyptian presidency announced that the funeral of President Sisy-s mother will only be attended by her family members.

Lawyer Samir Sabry made a report to the state security prosecution against Nader Bakkar, a leader at Al-Nour Islamic party as he cursed Christians, considering them infidels.

HG Abba Mina, bishop of Mississauga, Vancouver and West of Canada, visited Archangel Michael’s and St. Takla Hemanout’s church which Pope Tawadros II consecrated a year ago.

HG Abba Luka, bishop of southern France and the French speaking parts of Switzerland, celebrated the liturgy, during which he ordained a new priest for St. Mary’s Church at Geneva.

The bishop of Maghagha and Adwa announced that he hopes for a solution for the crisis of Miana Village that started by last Easter before a new head of the police department started to work there.

The Saudi religious police forced in a house at Al-Azizi Square, Al-Khafagy Governorate, and arrested 27 Christians because they were praying, and confiscated bibles and musical instruments.