The Saudi religious police forced in a house at Al-Azizi Square, Al-Khafagy Governorate, and arrested 27 Christians because they were praying, and confiscated bibles and musical instruments.

Hundreds of churches in Europe ring their bells today, August 15th, as a support for Christians of the east, on the commemoration of St. Mary’s departure, according to their calendar. One of these churches is the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

The youth committee at the Egyptian Council of Churches (ECC) has just finished its meeting and decided to establish a media office to communicate with journalists, the press and the public.

Egypt's foreign ministry strongly condemned on Saturday a report issued by Human Rights Watch (HRW) which criticises governmental "inaction" following the violent 2013 dispersal of the Islamist Rabaa sit-in.

Egypt’s Journalists Syndicate is to send the final version of the unified draft law on regulating press and media to the Prime Ministry Sunday, said Syndicate’s member Alaa Thabet Thursday.

Mohamed Salmawy, head of the Arab Writers Union, has requested the Interior Minister facilitate the entry of Arab writers and intellectuals who have completed formalities and received visas from Egyptian embassies abroad.

Russia has handed Egypt a Molniya missile ship that participated in the inauguration of the "New Suez Canal" earlier this month, the Egyptian armed forces announced on Saturday.

Egypt will open the Rafah Border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Monday for three days in both directions, state-owned news agency MENA reported on Saturday.

Two yeaphotojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid, better known as Shawkan, has exceeded the maximum legal pre-trial detention periodrs after his arrest during the forceful dispersal of pro-Muslim Brotherhood sit-ins by security forces, .

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark See, received a delegation of deacons from Virgin Mary deacons School in Nasr City.

Abba Abraam, Bishop of Abba Abram Monastery in Fayoum, said that the monastery receives daily visitors to celebrate the Virgin Mary fasting from all cities of the province as well as visitors from other provinces and the numbers are increasing continuously.

Dr. Naguib Gabriel, head of the Egyptian Union of Human Rights Organization, revealed that there is a massive campaign to resolve the religious parties.

In a protest inside the great Cathedral of St. Mark in Abbasia, a number of Copts protested against what they described as the exploitation of some bishops and priests to their religious authority and wasting church funds.

Explosion of three improvised explosive devices in Tanta, Gharbia Governorate. Civil protection forces have found a fourth bomb in the same area and the bomb was dismantled.

Not long after the death of legendary actor Omar Sharif, fellow Egyptian acting legend Nour el Sherif passed away at the age of 69, reported Youm 7.

Father Abdelmaseh Albasit Abulkhair, priest of Virgin Mary Church in Mostorod, said that Virgin Mary's Festival is very important for both Christian and Muslims.

A coptic minor girl called Mary Magdy Attia, 17 years-old disappeared in a mysterious circumstances in Minya. Her family sent a distress to General Magdy Abdel General Magdy Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of the interior, telling him about the disappearance of their minor daughter asking him to find their daughter.

Criminal Investigation Directorate in Bani Sweif were reported that two houses where owned by Copts in Alfashn village, were burned, which caused damages in both the two houses.

National Security Police directed a security crackdowns around Giza governorate, which led to the arrest 3 escaped defendant.

The Coptic Church in the Netherlands held a great celebration on the occasion of opening the New Suez Canal under the auspices of the Bishop of the Diocese, Abba Arsani.

On the evening of the first Sunday of August, Pantanassa Monastery together with the Parish of St Catherine’s Mascot, presented an information evening to inform the faithful on the wider implications of the proposed amendment to the definition of ‘marriage’ in the Marriage Act (1961). It specifically addressed religious, social, legal and educational consequences that such legislation would have if approved. You can now watch a video of all four presentations below or download the audio.