Police is taking extra security measures to secure churches at Christmas celebrations. Security cameras were installed and safe campus surroundings churches was ensured.

Dr. Ahmed Saeed, Member of the House of Representatives, said that the new parliament is characterized by higher percentage of Copts and women than previous parliaments.

Majdi Ajati, Minister of State for Legal Affairs and the House of Representatives, said he met with Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, to talk about the laws relating to the Copts.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi received cardinal Mar Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East of the Maronites, and congratulated him on their new church in Heliopolis.

In a statement today, Diocese of Dishna thanked police for releasing the kidnapped Coptic child Antonious Fam, 11 years old.

A Coptic family in the village of Sheikh Youssef in Sohag, accused a Muslim young man of kidnapping their daughter days before her wedding.

Abba Arsany, Bishop of the Netherlands opened the second largest Coptic church in the Netherlands on Sunday.

US Treasury Secretary Daniel Glaser met on Sunday with a number of senior officials in Cairo to discuss the Egyptian-American cooperation to face ISIS’ financing.

Egyptian Minister of Education Hilali Sherbini to meet with young Coptic inventor Ibrahim Youssef who invented new fuel for airplanes.

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A huge fire broke out at paper factory in Cairo’s Obour city after a 15-year old boy accidently lit a lighter, the factory’s owner Tharwat Thabet told Youm7 Saturday.

A delegation of four Russian military officials arrived in Cairo Saturday to discuss cooperation between both countries, DPA quoted sources as saying.

Two police officers were sentenced on Saturday to five years in jail by an Egyptian court for torturing a lawyer to death in a police station in February, a rare penalty against members of the security forces.

Egyptian police and army are taking extra security measures to secure celebrations of Christmas. Abdel Basset Denkul, Assiut director of security, said that cooperation with Egyptian army comes to secure the celebrations as well as public and private properties.

Funeral of brother of Akhmim Bishop to be held on Tuesday after the corpse arrives to Egypt. He died in hospital in America where he was receiving treatment.

Dr. Sabri Ebada, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Awqaf, said that Muslim scholars agreed to Al-Azhar fatwa that nobody dares to call members of the Islamic State infidels.

German newspapers published reports about the huge fire at the monastery of St. Anthony in Germany. Two people were injured and a nearby house was destroyed.

Osama al-Ghazali Harb, co-founder of the Egyptian Democratic Front Party, said the Egyptian revolution has failed.

Coptic Church in Vienna bought the Triumphant Virgin Church in Vienna. The contract was signed by Cardinal of the Catholic Church in Austria Christoph Hunbern.

Family House concluded the project of Together for Egypt between dozens of Muslim and Christian clergy. The project aimed to stress values of cooperation between Muslims and Christians for the sake of the country’s progress.

Egyptian Attorney General decided today to file lawsuit against several Coptic movements accusing them of inciting against Pope Tawadros and inciting sedition among the Coptic congregation.