Bishop Eklemandos, the General Bishop of Ottawa, Montreal and eastern Canada, visited Gander for the first time since his ordination.

A bomb killed two conscripts and injured 16 others in al-Arish in northern Sinai on Saturday morning, Egypt's Interior Ministry said.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi called for an international solution to end escalating attacks on the Al-Aqsa mosque in a Saturday meeting with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas in New York City, the presidency announced.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi met Friday in New York German Chancellor Angela Merkel during the meetings of the UN General Assembly. The two discussed bilateral relations and the latest developments in Egypt, the Egyptian presidency said.

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi to free dozens of journalists currently languishing in Egyptian prisons.

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, arrived today in Cairo International Airport after speeding 12 days in a pastoral care visit to Europe.

Egyptian police promised extra security measures at Eid al-Adha that is being celebrated by Muslims for 4 days. It added that hospitals and other public facilities will be working at full capacity to serve the people at this special occasion.

Father Bishoy Aziz, Executive Director of Logos TV, the official channel of the Coptic Church in America said in his monthly speech to viewers of the Channel in America that we should move forward following the holy bible that says in (Luke 2:62) that no one puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.

Syrian refugees in Austria are going to march next Monday in to thank the government for its effort and support to the refugees in Austria after they were expelled from Arabic countries.

Hussam Bazinh, head of the General Union of Egyptians in Austria, expressed his optimism for appointing minister Nabila Makram Abdel-Shaheed, Minister for Migration and Egyptians abroad, assuring that she will offer a lot to help the Egyptians abroad and benefit from them as well.

Egyptian Council of Churches promised in a statement today that Egyptian churches will not mobilize the people to vote in favor of certain candidates in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

Dalia Ziada, the director of the Egyptian Center for Free Democratic Studies, said that the Egyptian Foreign Ministry has to react to campaigns by foreign organizations.

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, is going to visit Ethiopia on September 26 to celebrate the holy feast of the cross with the Ethiopian church, spokesman for the Coptic Orthodox Church said.

A group of Bedouins took over a piece of land belongs to a Coptic family at Amerya village at Alexandria while carrying machine guns to frighten the people.

Copts for the home association, headed by Karim Kamal, issued a statement on Tuesday to call the Egyptian Diaspora in the United States of America to demonstrate before the UN building in New York City, during the visit of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to America, delivering his speech before the General Assembly of the United Nations. He called the demonstrators to form human chains in support of the president.

Killer of priest’s father in Abu Qurqas was arrested. Police were reported last week that Mariam Saad, 75 years old, was killed and her jewelry were stolen.

Rudolf Hundstorfer, Austrian Minister of Social Affairs, Labour and Consumer Protection, is going to meet next Monday with members of the Council of the Arab Austrians Union in Vienna to discuss migration and asylum issues and employment of foreigners.

Father Poktor Nashed, priest of St. Mary Church in Amiriya, Alexandria, called police to move and save the Copts in the village after several extremists attacked the church.

The Salafist Call and al-Nour ultra conservative party used fatwa of Sheikh Mohammed Nasreddin the Albanian, which legalized nominating the Copts on the electoral lists of al-Nour. The fatwa considered the Copts less dangerous than atheists on Islam, and therefore, voting for them is the least evil!