As Copts celebrate the feast of St. Mary worldwide, the Copts in Forn village, Minya, are deprived from celebrating as their church is closed by police.

Police in Abu Qurqas, Minya has prevented the priest from entering Fron village and arrested a number of Christians on charges of holding unlicensed prayers! Abba Makarious, Bishop of Minya, has denounced the procedures taken by police and pointed out to 15 closed churches and 70 villages without churches in Minya.

The chief prosecutor of west Cairo ordered the arrest of officer Karim Magdy and 9 policemen in charge of torturing the Coptic old man Magdy McCain to death. This came after receiving the forensic report, which proved that the victim was tortured to death.

Abbas Schuman, Undersecretary of Al-Azhar, said to the delegation of the European parliament which is currently visiting Egypt, said that Al-Azhar is trying to communicate with the world in order to explain what is Islam.

Evangelical churches sent a delegation to the United States of America to support President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi during his visit to America.

Pope Francis received today the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, and discussed with him the problems facing Christians in Iraq.