For the second day, hundreds of Copts visited the Catholic Cathedral of Christ the King in Minya to take the blessings of the remains of St. Charbel and St. Refka in Minya.

Media Centre of Interior ministry said that Capitan Rafeek Ezzat, police officer, was shot dead by gunmen riding in a car in front of his daughter's school.

Security services arrested two students aged 21 years, in Qena governorate as they were taking pictures with their mobile phone for a police station in central of Qena.

National Security Police arrested 53 leaders of the terrorist group who were accused in many crimes such as destruction of public and private institutions, and inciting hatred.

Fatma Badran, member of board of the Arab women's association, assured that the spread of child molestation and sexual harassment have increased inside Egyptian schools.

After they were not able to build a church for 45 years, families of 7 Coptic martyrs of Libya demanded the president to permit them to build a church on the name of their sons.

In his meeting with young Coptic people in Italy, Pope Tawadros II, invited them to stand still against the world like the Coptic martyrs in Libya. Pope told the young youth that they should consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith

Father Poulos Halim, spokesman for the Coptic Orthodox Church, said that Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark See, received the remains of saints Dionysus and Ambrose from the Patriarch of Venice, Cardinal Angelo Scola.

For the seventh day, the Coptic Child Stephen Hani Zaki, was not released since he was kidnapped at gun point in Nag Hammadi while he was walking with his mother in the street.

The Monastery of Jabal al-Tair receives about two million visitors to celebrate St. Mary feast that starts from next Thursday and lasts for one week.

Tariq al-Zomor, Chairman of the Building and Development Islamist party called Friday on all Islamist political factions to “stand behind the umbrella of the January 25 Revolution and accept their opponents.”

The headquarters of Egypt’s former ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), badly damaged when it was set ablaze during the January 25 Revolution, will be demolished within a month, sources in the Cairo governorate said Saturday.

Cairo Criminal Court sentenced Saturday 14 defendants in absentia to life in prison for illegal assembly, attempted murder, murder of policemen and illegal possession of weapons.

Dr. Ismail Abd-Elhamid, governor of Damietta said that the Brotherhood terrorist organization does not bring good for Egypt or its people since it’s a terrorist organization.

Dr.Younes Makioun the Chairman of Al-Nour Party said that the Salafist party treats the Copts nicely as God commanded the Muslims to protect them.

Father Kamal Youssef was elected as the Chairman of Evangelical Synod, after he had won 143 votes of total 278 votes.

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark See, left the Netherlands heading to Italy where he is going to hold a conference with Coptic priests in Europe.

The security media center at the Ministry of Interior ministry announced that a bomb has exploded inside an apartment near the police station in Nasr City.

Father Bolis Haleem, the spokesman for the Coptic Orthodox Church, said that Pope Tawadros II concluded his visit to the Netherlands after a week-long pastoral care visit.

The Coptic Orthodox Church has denied in an official statement, what was announced by the media about separation from the Orthodox Church in America from the mother church in Egypt.

General Sedki Sobhi, Minister of Defense and Military Production, signed a military understanding memorandum with the Spanish Defense Minister, which included cooperation in military fields and the exchange of expertise and training for both countries.