Coptic Church in Alexandria celebrated the second anniversary of palm Sunday martyrs at the Monastery of St. Mina in Mariout, Alexandria. St. Mina Monastery had built a church on the name of martyrs of the Saints church in Alexandria, where 20 martyrs of the terrorist bombing on 2011 Christmas eve were buried. Later, the monastery announced to transfer the bodies of other martyrs of Palm Sunday attack to the same shrine.

Abba Paula, Bishop of Tanta and its affiliates, and Hisham Saied, governor of Gharbia, laid today the foundation stone of the church of Archangel Michael in Hekma Street in Tanta. The celebration was attended by a number of clergy and senior officials of the fovernoreate.