Coptic Orthodox Churches have hanged black banners to express sadness for the passion of Christ at the commemoration of the Holy Week.

Beni Suef prosecutor ordered today the imprisonment of four gangsters for 4 days pending investigations on charges of kidnapping a 4 years old Coptic Christian child.

Six Coptic Christian defendants were finally released today after being in prison for about nine months.

Ateya Medhat, 8 years old Coptic child, was kidnapped today while he was heading to school in Beni Suef. Three gunmen have kidnapped the Coptic child whose father is a well-known wealthy timber barons in Beni Suef governorate.

The Criminal Court of Beni Suef has decided to release the six Coptic defendants of Diabia village as well as three Muslim defendants on bail.

Criminal Court of Beni Suef considers the remanded custody of Coptic Christians defendants in Diabia sectarian incidents tomorrow.

Customary reconciliation meeting held in Wasti Police Station concerning the sectarian violence in Diabia village has reached an agreement after five hours of argument.

Security officials, leaders and clergy in Diabia village, Beni Suef, held today a reconciliation meeting between Muslims and Coptic Christians in order to discuss solutions to escalating violence against the Copts in the village.

A number of Muslim men have attacked a Coptic man who works as auto rickshaw driver called Awad Adly, causing him several injuries in the face for no clear reason.

Beni Suef Court has decided to remand six Copts of Diabia village in custody to reach 8 months in prison.

Lawyer of Coptic defendants in Diabia sectarian incidents told Copts United that the criminals who burned the church and properties of the Copts are not yet punished. Therefore, they decided to attack new properties of the Copts knowing they’ll get away from punishment.

Coptic Center for training and development in Beni Suef started project to find jobs for girls in the governorate.

Engineering Authority of the Egyptian armed forces has almost finished repairing Franciscan nuns' school in Beni Suef.

Police have stopped restoration work at the Evangelical Church in Zeitun village, Beni Suef without giving any reasons.

Copts United had published news about three Coptic Christians shot dead last October after they refused to convert to Islam, however; state has just ignored the matter till it was repeated once again this week.

Coptic Christians in Diabia village, Beni Suef, told Copts United that a number of fanatics are provoking and harassing them.

Father Rezkallah Goda, priest of Angel Michael and St. Antony Church in Diabia village, Beni Suef, said that the Coptic Christians in the village have to pray amid the burning wreckage of the church as some racist officials refuse to apply restoration permission to the church.

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, concluded today his visit to St. Paul monastery in the Red Sea that lasted for three days.

Sources in the Coptic Church said that Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, is going to celebrate the anniversary of St. Antony at St. Antony’s historical monastery in the Eastern wilderness of the Red Sea governorate.

A customary reconciliation session is to be held next Saturday in Beba’s police station in order to solve the sectarian problems, in Tarshoub village, Beni Suef.

The Muslim Brotherhood is inciting against the Coptic Christians in Egypt by claiming they fight Islam and the Islamic identity of Egypt.