The very first church in Lotfalah village, Mattai diocese, was opened by Bishop Gawargious of Mattai. The church that carried the name of St. Mary and St. Bishoy is serving 400 Coptic Christian families.

2300 young men and women participated in the conference of faith in Magaga on July 4th and 5th. The conference was opened by Abba Aghathon, Bihsop of Magaga, and targeted the preparatory school youth and talked about Christian faith and Coptic rituals.

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, participated in the ecumenical prayers for the Middle East held yesterday in the Vatican.

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, said he accepted the invitation of Pope Francis to participate at the Vatican ecumenical prayer on July 7th. Pope of Alexandria said in an interview with SIR Italian news agency that prayer is the best weapon to face any conflict.

Young women of the secondary school attended "made in church" conference held for 4 days at St. Mark house in Alexandria. The idea of the conference is that the church made girls with high quality that they get certified with (ISO). The conference was attended by 450 young women from different Egyptian governorates.

Abba Abraham Isaac, Patriarch of Alexandria for Catholic Copts, congratulated President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi on the anniversary of June 30 revolution. In his message, the Patriarch wished all peace and prosperity for Egypt and its people.

Pope Tawadros II ordained 17 new priests for the ministry in Cairo and the united states of America. The ordination was performed at the monastery of St. Bishoy in Wadil Natroun where 16 priests were ordained for the ministry in Cairo and one priest for St. Mary Church in New Jersey.

In his weekly sermon from St. Bishoy Monastery in Wadil Natroun, Pope Tawadros II praised the power of prayers in the Coptic church. He said that prayer is the power of the church throughout 2000 years of prosecutions.

Abba Serapion, Metropolitan of Los Angeles ordained a new priest at the church of St. Abanoub and St. Anthony in Norco. The Deacon David Awad was ordained a priest in a celebration attended by Abba Abraham, the genral bishop and Abba Serafim, bishop of Ohio and Michigan. The new priest traveled to Egypt to spend the next 40 days in the monastery of St. Bishoy in Wadi El Natroun before he starts his new ministry.

Abba Mark, Bishop of France and Abba Wissa, Bishop of Balyana, ordained a new deacon.

Abba Eklimindos, Bishop of Almaza, ordained a deacon before he will ordain him a priest next week.

The heads of the three Eastern Churches celebrate a joint Holy Mass at the church of St. Mary in Atshana, Lebanon. The holy mass was attended by Pope Twadaros II, Mar Ephram II, the Patriarch of the Syriac Church and the Catholics Aram I, the Armenian Catholics.

The President of Lebanon General Michel Aoun received the heads of the three Eastern Orthodox Churches, His Holiness Pope Twadros II and Mar Ignatius Ephram II, Patriarch of Syria and Catholics Aram I of the Great House of Kilikia, Lebanon. This came after the Lebanese president had opened the new patriarchal headquarters of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Lebanon.

Bishop Pernaba, Bishop of Turin and Rome, delegated Father Theofilis of the Syrian Monastery, to attend the Breakfast of the Egyptian Embassy in the Vatican. The Coptic church in Turin and Rome was invited by the Egyptian Ambassador to the Vatican Mahmoud Sami.

Egypt s Ministry of Immigration and Egyptian Expatriate Affairs congratulated the 39 year old professor Mohamed El-Sayed Badr for taking the Deanship of Media in one of Germany s Munich Universities. Mohamed El-Sayed Badr, originally from Alexandria, is the youngest expat in Germany to take such a position, according to the Egyptian Ministry. He moved to Germany in 2011 and has held the position as head of the international Media and Communication management bachelor program at campus Munich since 2014.

St. Athanasius and St. Cyril College of Theological Studies (ACTS) celebrated the graduation of its second batch of 14 graduate students at the same college in Clermont, California, who were awarded a master s degree in theological studies. The ceremony was attended by bishops Sarabion of Los Angeles, Abraham, of Los Angeles, Cyrilus of Los Angeles Abba Youssef, Bishop of Southern the United States attended the ceremony as a keynote speaker and spoke about the importance of theological studies and qualified Christian leaders.

Dr. Shawky Allam, Mufti of Egypt, condemned the recent suicide bombing attack on a mosque in Niger; killing ten worshipers who were inside the mosque. The Mufti said in a statement that once again the terrorist groups prove they know nothing about the principles and foundations of religions. The Mufti assured that Islam prohibits the killing of innocent people.

Abba Karas, Bishop of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, ordained the first Coptic priest in the diocese. Dr. Shaker Morkos, was named Father Daniel during the ordination. The new priest will travel to Egypt to spend 40 days of spiritual retreat at the monastery of St. Bishoy in Wadil Natroun.

The media center of the Coptic Orthodox Church announced the death of monk Mina of St. Paul monastery after years of struggling with disease and spending 40 years paralyzed. Father Mina was born on May 29, 1947 and was ordained a monk on November 24, 1977.

His Holiness Pope Twadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, received at the papal residence at the Cathedral of St. Mark in Abbasiya Mr. Sherif Lithy, the Egyptian ambassador to Cameroon. The meeting was attended by Father Daoud Lamai, priest of the Church of St. Mark the Apostle in Heliopolis and Father Salmon, the Coptic priest in Ghana.

The relics of 20 Coptic martyrs of Libya returned to their home village of Awr in Minya where they were buried in a special shrine in their church. Several Coptic bishops and thousands of Copts celebrated the holy mass at the church of martyrs in Minya. The relics of the martyrs returned to Egypt from Libya yesterday where they received by Pope Tawadros at the airport.