Copts in Jabal al-Tair, Minya, have demonstrated to demand the return of a kidnapped Coptic housewife. Police were reported and the matter is still under investigation.

Police in Minya have seized house of a Coptic man in Samalot after he was accused of celebrating the holy mass at his own house and trying to turn it into church without getting the due permits.

4 people were injured today in sectarian clashes between Muslims and Christians in Beni Amar vilage, Matay, Minya.

Police in Samalout, Minya, have released 14 Muslim and Christian defendants arrested in sectarian clashes in Ezbet Yacob because of church construction.

A Coptic old woman named Sedika Wahba was killed in mysterious circumstances before her dead body was found in the street in Minya.