When the virgin Mary was born, her parents gave her to serve in the temple. Her parents may have wished to have a male child like most of the parents in the Middle East so that the baby may carry the father’s name for decades. She lived in the temple until she grew up. Then, she had to move to live with a man who takes her as wife. This man was Joseph. The young lady had to tolerate a lot of pain starting with being accused of committing adultery and passing by pregnancy.

In violation of the constitution and law, Copts are displaced on daily basis from their houses, villages and towns as part of collective punishment policy. Justice and law are subject to the will of the mobs and idiots. The innocent people have to leave in order to avoid fire, weapons and threats. We have many documents and videos for such attacks. They start by calls of fanatics to attack the infidels and then the actual attacks that may include looting, fire and destruction for houses of the Copts. Those who are displaced can’t defend their rights after they were targeted based on their religion. However, those who lead the attacks were supposed to take care of the Copts in Egypt.

When Diocletian issued decree to burn the churches and the demobilization of the Christians from work and confiscation of their property, St. George was a Christian prince in Cappadocia. He decided to declare his Christian faith and torn the king’s decree into pieces.

Since its inception, the Islamic rule in Egypt used sectarianism and linked between the Copts and any failure that faces the regime. However the opposition is not of a religious character; the regime plays with sectarianism that has been burning us for a long time. Several attacks against the Copts is described as individual Incidents, but they are in fact a systematic attacks and ethnic cleansing aiming to humiliate the religious minority starting with calling them infidels and contempt of Christianity and even burning of Bibles and churches in addition to kidnapping of Copts. Later, they call for jihad and start a whole new cycle of violence and make new massacres against the Copts.

Each year at the week of Christian Unity, we see many people who love our lord Jesus Christ. However we don’t expect to reach Christian unity so soon, we know that love can achieve such unity. This was stated by Pope Francis in the presence of Pope Tawadros when he said that dialogue and love can achieve full unity between Christian churches. He added that such unity may complete through the holy cross, studying the holy bible and prayers.

God created man and woman in His own image. “In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them” (Gen 1:27). She was taken from man’s side and was made equal to him. “The Lord God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

Any administration always needs to continuous update and development, or else it would become decayed. Church’s administration is not an exception and it needs management just like other business and organizational activities. That’s why Jesus Christ arranged the work of this foundation to be done and supervised by certain people who are called the clergy.

Our church is not based on absolute autocracy. People choose their priests, bishops and the Pope. They have the right to select while the Holy Synod has the right to appoint “Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over

Last Friday of the Great Lent is the last day of the biggest fast in the Coptic Orthodox church. Prayers of this day concentrates on the visit of God for humans in Jesus Christ promising the salvation of mankind; judging the righteous and the evil according to the deeds of every one.