Cairo Evangelist Synod held meeting to investigate announcements of Dr. Rev. Sameh Maurice concerning “the gifts of the Holy spirit" that he had said.

Father Andrew Alexander announced he had resigned from priesthood, but still embraces the Coptic Orthodox Doctrine.

The kidnapped Coptic child Kyrolos Ebid was released yesterday after his family paid 50.000 EGP ransom. The family negotiated the ransom with the kidnappers and paid the money as police were not able to save the child.

A factory owned by a Coptic Christian man called George Adel in Samalout, Minya, was set on fire yesterday by unidentified people.

Coptic Orthodox Church denounced the assault on an army checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula that killed 30 troops and injured many.

Council of the Churches of Egypt mourned the martyrs of El Arish terrorist attack in which 30 troops were killed on Friday.

Dishna Coptic Orthodox Bishopric canceled the celebrations of Abba Tekla 23 enthronement anniversary to mourn the martyrs of the nation, who were killed in terrorist attack at Sheikh Zuid in Sinai.

The thugs imposing royalties in Shamia village, Sahel Salim, Assiut, have broken into New Testament elementary school with firearms before they kidnap Kyrolos Ebid Shenouda.

Monks of ST. Macarius monastery were informed that the government will start the project of the new highway intended to be built inside the monastery next week.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said Saturday that an assault on an army checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula that killed 30 troops was a "foreign-funded operation" and vowed to take drastic action against militants.

Egypt was set to close the Rafah border crossing with Gaza Strip as part of an emergency measure in the wake of the deadliest attack on Egyptian security forces in the nearby Sinai Peninsula that killed more than two dozen soldiers, Al Arabiya reported.

Egypt has declared a three-month state of emergency in parts of the Sinai Peninsula after some of the worst anti-state violence since President Mohamed Mursi was overthrown last year.

Metropolitan Hilarion, Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and head of the delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church at the Vatican, called to protect the persecuted Christians in Iraq and other countires of the Middle East.

Father Michael Anton, Priest of St. Goeroge Church in Arish, said that Magdy Tanius, the Coptic man wounded at Arish explosion 3 months ago, has passed away yesterday at hospital in Cairo.

A Coptic lady called Safaa Gamil, 27 years old, has disappeared this week after she attended the mass prayers in Farshout.

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, received today Anba Pachomius, former acting Patriarch, at Cairo airport after he spent more than a month of medical treatment in London.

Ibrahim Mahlab, Egypt’s Prime Minister, accompanied by Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark See, has visited a cave in old Cairo where Christi had lived for a while during the visit of the holy family to Egypt.

Abba Bishoy, Bishop of Damietta and member of the Holy Synod, said in his speech during the celebration of the Holy Family in Egypt that Christ was not born in a cattle manger as known, but in lambs manger.

Michel Chambon, a Catholic theologian, said that Christians in China are persecuted like any other country. The Catholic theologian added that China is not a paradise or hell, but like any other country that persecute the Christians.

The Coptic Cultural Center, headed by Bishop Ermia, organizes a lecture entitled "The most important canonical early sources in the first ecumenical endeavors between the Orthodox and Latin churches."

An improvised bomb went off Wednesday afternoon outside Cairo University, injuring six policemen and four civilians, a security source told Al-Ahram's Arabic news website.