A Coptic woman called Mary Jamil survived slay attempt in Warraq, Cairo, after a fanatic called Mamdouh has dragged her in the street and attacked her with white weapon.

Hozan Merza, a Saudi lecturer at King Abdulaziz University started an initiative in Saudi Arabia to encourage men to get married to four women. Men who get married to 3 women will be granted the fourth for free.

A number of displaced Coptic families have returned to their homes in Arish after the city restored its safety, said Bishop of North Sinai.

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, and Abba Makarious, bishop of Minya, perfumed today the remains of St. Moses the Black at St. Mary monastery in Paramous. The feast of St. Moses will be celebrated on next Saturday.

Chaldean Church announced it will not participate in the Brussels Conference of Iraqi Christians that discusses the future of the Christians in Iraq. Luis Rafael Sacco, Patriarch of the Chaldean Church, added that Iraqi Christians are part of Iraq and helping them is related to offer help to Iraq in facing terrorism and building the country and its security.

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, held meeting on Sunday with members of the clerical councils in Cairo and its sub-offices.

News agencies said that a terrorist belong to the ISIS has blown himself up in a group of ISIS’ leaders on the Syrian borders. Sources added that a number of the leaders were killed and several were injured but there are not specific numbers.

Kamal Zakher, the Egyptian writer, called the Coptic Orthodox Church to specify an age for retirement of bishops and priests since people can’t do the same work when they reach the age of 60>

Abba Makarios, general bishop of Minya, visited the Church of St. Anthony in the village of Mensafis. The church appeared very poor without chairs and had only wooden roof, but the children chanted a lot of hymns before the bishop.

As the Muslims around the world are celebrating fitr feast, Copts headed by Father Shenouda in Etsa Mahata village in Minya lined up the street to congratulate the Muslims on the feast. The unique way of congratulation was well received by the Muslims in the streets and considered it a good gesture of love.

Abba Markos, Bishop of Shubra El-Kheima, ordained a deacon during the holy mass celebrated at 57357 Childrens Hospital for cancer. It is worth mentioning that the administration of 57357 hospital allocated a place in the hospital as a church to serve the sick children, and the holy mass was photographed by Kogi Coptic Channel for kids.

Among 7 terrorists who were shot dead on Thursday in Assiut mount, 2 were named involved in the recent terrorist attack against Copts heading to visit St. Samuel monastery.

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, delivered his weekly sermon at Archangel Michael Chruch in King Mariout, called the people to encourage one another as the bible tells us to encourage young souls. He added that such encouragement is not limited to the young people but to everyone with spiritual and material needs.

Reda Mohamed, Imam of al-Arish mosque was shot to death in the streets of the city by elements of Bait al-Maqdis terrorist group. He was kidnapped two days ago, before two masked men dropped him out of a car and shot him dead in the street. The Imam was known for supporting the government and attacking the terrorists in his speeches.

A local source in the province of Kirkuk said that ISIS began to adopt new seals devoid of the term (Islamic state). Sources added that the new seal to conduct its administrative work and that may be due to disagreements among leaders of ISIS.

Al-Fadi Center in Beni Mazar Center is honoring 17 Coptic children whose fathers were martyred in the terrorist attack against bus heading to St. Samuel monastery in Minya a month ago. 29 people were killed after unidentified gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Coptic Christians.

Abba Elija, Coptic bishop of Khartoum, is currently in a pasotarl care visit to England where he celebrated the holy mass at the church of St. Mary and ST. Abraam in Brighton and ordained a number of deacons. His Holiness arrived in London on Wednesday and celebrated the feast of St. Philopatir.

Abba Ologious, bishop and head of St. Shenouda Monastery in Suhag ordaind three new priests among the monks of the monastery. The new monks are Father Shenouda, Father Ayoub and Father Tadaws of St. Shenouda.

A number of young Copts in the village of Manshaat Manbal, Matay, Minya, have organized a banquet for Muslims in several villages on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan.

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, received Ivan Sorcos, EU Ambassador to Egypt. The meeting was held at the Great Cathedral of St. Mark in Abbassia according to statement of the spokesperson of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

Firefighters in Daqahliya extinguished on Wednesday a fire broke out inside the new building of St. Demiana Monastery in the region of Prairie Belqas. The fire broke out in the building dedicated to the residence of the nuns. Police were reported and the matter is currently under investigation. It’s worth mentioning that this is the third fire erupted in the monastery in 6 months.