The presidential campaign of Sheikh Hazem Salah Abu Ismail has used Al-Rahman mosque to hang a number of banners and ads. Many Salafists held his image after Friday prayers in the same mosque in a violation for the law of elections.

Pope Shenouda III, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark has apologized for not sermonizing today at St. Mark cathedral in Abbassiya because doctors asked him to rest. They had also prevented the visit for him. While a number of bishops have came to be reassured about him.

Police station of Abu Kurkas has been reported the disappearance of Hanaa Monir Younan in mysterious circumstances, while she was on her way to apply for a job at the educational administration.

A delegation of the Muslim Brotherhood leaders has visited this morning the headquarters of the Evangelical Church in Heliopolis to repay the visit a senior delegation from the Evangelical Church had paid to the headquarters of Muslim Brotherhood at Mokattam. Muslim Brotherhood delegation included: Dr. Muhammad Badie, head of the group, Mahdi Akef," the former leader, Dr. Mahmoud Ghazlan, spokesman of the group, and the journalist Mohammed Abdul Koddous, leader of Freedoms Committee at Press Syndicate.

Peter Roskam, member of the U.S. Congress warned of the danger of the Muslim Brotherhood on America, their spread into the American society, and their danger in Egypt after they took over the parliament. during a conference held by International Security Center affiliated to the American research commission titled "an attack on faith", two days ago in Chicago.

Rami Kamel, human rights activist told Copts United that two Christians were wounded by gunshots, one in his face. In addition to a number of Muslims who were also wounded during the fight which started as clashes among Christian drivers in Warraq, Giza. Then, transmitted to a fight between Christians and Muslims when some Muslims tried to intervene to break up clashes between the drivers. Kamel said that clashes developed into using firearms. A number of Salafis tried to provoke Muslims against Christians, but some Muslim wise men intervened to stop them.

Saeed Abdel Maseeh, director of the Egyptian Center for Development and Human Rights told Copts united that the Attorney General decided to remove the name of Dr. Adel Fawzi, the head of Middle East Christians organization from the no travel list. Fawzi was banned from travelling outside Egypt after being accused of defamation of religions in 2007.

Father Estafanous Shehata , deputy of Samalut diocese said to Copts united that Christian merchants of Samalut, Minya governorate are panicked after the threats they had received anonymously at their homes or through their cell phones, especially after criminals had carried out their threats by burning some shops owned by a Christian man called Yasser Sorial which coasted him about two million pounds.

Ayman Sadiq Kamal, the brother of Hani, the young kidnapped Christian in Minya, said to Copts United the security authorities in Minya are still covering up the criminals who kidnapped his brother, however their names and location are known, pointing out that the prosecution has arrested them after the incident, then released them to mislead the investigations.

Human rights activist, Ezzat Ibrahim told Copts United that a number of thugs stopped a microbus owned by St. Mary Church, Abu al-Hadr village, Dirout, Assiut, and stole it. Ezzat explained that the thugs attacked the microbuses, when transporting students to the school of the village, attacked the driver, let the students out, then took the microbus and fled.

Human rights activist, Amir Fakhry, al-Kalema human rights center in Minya told Copts United that a Christian girl called Hanaa Munir Younan, 21 years old, from Bani Ebaid village affiliated to Abu Korkas, Minya, have disappeared last Sunday.

Liberal activist and writer D. Yehia al-Wakiel, has told Copts United that he intends to establish an Egyptian group that confirms the Egyptian identity as well as cultural pluralism of the country. The group will be called "Copts Brotherhood" which is going to be political and not based on religion, and all Egyptians will be allowed in, even moderate Salafies who don’t hate non-Muslims and atheists, said al-Wakiel.

Human rights activist, Wissa Fawzi told Copts United that the displaced Christian families from the village of sharbat, affiliated to al-Nahda city, al-Ameria, Alexandria, returned last Saturday to their homes. Abaskhiroun Suleiman Khalil returned with his family, accompanied by Sherif Hawary, the Salafist Sheik and the Salafist MP Ahmed al-Sharif of al-Nour Party.

MCN, Middle East Christian news agency, the first news agency specialized in Christian news in the Middle East launches today. It presents news in two languages: Arabic (www.mcnarabic.com) and English (www.mcndirect.com). It aims at filling the vacuum in news coverage of Christians in the Middle East, caused by the majority of local and international media ignoring this kind of news. While local media does so according to the

“The Church has been caring carefully for the family of Murad Sami Girgis, on the contrary of what was said by media” Said Father Boktor Nashed, priest of al-Nahda church, al-Amria, Alexandria to Copts United. He added that the church has assigned attorneys at her own expense and has provided housing for the father and his two sons, pointing out that Metropolitan Pachomius is taking care of them himself. He added that Sammy’s brother had requested a sum of money for renting an apartment, and I asked him for the contract that we can pay the money, but did not bring it, so I refused to pay.

During a conference held by Youth of Maspero Union, and entitled “Judiciary sacrifices Christians”, father Philopatir Gamil, priest of St. Mary Church and St. Mark in Faisal said that Egyptian judiciary is lifeless and had a military funeral. About the case of Maspero, he said that the real culprit is either General Hamdy Badien, or General Hassan al-Ruwaini. Gamil asked the Church to abandon the customary sessions and work the law, however the judges of Egypt are longing to use the Islamic law as announced by Judge Ahmed al-Zand!

A customary session held in the police station of Beni Suef in the presence of a large number of arbitrators and senior leaders of security in Beni Suef after a large number of ultra-conservative Muslims, on Tuesday night, had smashed the home of a Coptic man who works as a contractor in Beni Suef, and damaging all contents of his two apartments and throwing its contents from balconies and stealing his car, after accusing his son (16 years old) and his nephew (15 years old) of sexual abusing of an 18 years old Muslim child who is said to be mentally disabled.

To support Khalid Ali’s presidential campaign, the activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, held a meeting last Wednesday in Sohag entitled “How to achieve the goal of the revolution?”, in the Marine Sports Club in the presence of the coalition of the revolution of Sohag, and a number of student and revolutionary movements. Alaa said that what the military is doing frequently in each governorate are repetitive incidents aiming at keeping the citizens preoccupied.

Amr Moussa, a potential candidate for the presidency described the Islamists of Egypt being in power as "a reality that should be dealt with during the drafting of the new Constitution", pointing out to some debatable issues, including the issue of applying the Islamic law as the main source of legislation. Moussa added that after the revolution, several parameters in Egyptian political life should be taken into consideration,

Egyptians of January 25th movement in Britain sent a request to the professors and Constitutional Law scholars of Egypt, showed that Egypt has participated in drafting the Charter of the United Nations, and therefore it does not make sense, in these difficult circumstances after the great revolution, that the geniuses of constitutional law should melt, leaving the stage for such constitutional nonsense that appeared in most decisions issued during the transitional period by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. The movement required to work on a constitution for Egypt that commensurate with its historical significance, and not to leave the stage for the beneficiaries and climbers. Egypt needs to unify in order to regain its position among Arabs, and open the door for the advancement of the Arabs and the Middle East. This will come only through a civil, democratic and centrist constitution.

Many Egyptians abroad have sent requests to Farouk Sultan, head of the supreme committee for the presidential elections of Egypt, Mohamed Saad el-Katatni, head of the People's Assembly, Kamal el-Ganzouri, the Prime Minister, Mohammed Kamel Amr, Foreign Minister, and Mohammed Ibrahim, Interiors Minister; to approve on getting registered in the presidential elections only by the national number, without requiring the card. In their demand, they pointed out that many of them have a new passport or a mechanized birth certificate, by which they can get their national number without issuing the ID cards, and asked for allowing them to issue the mechanized birth certificates from embassies and consulates, and checking the national ID service may start at least a week before the end of the registration period, as well as sending committees to issue national ID card at once, as well as allowing those who got their national ID card to register immediately in the presidential elections, and to establish a permanent office in every embassy to extract the important mechanized documents such as the new Egyptian passport, national ID card, and the mechanized birth certificate.