Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark See, moved Fr. Bishoy Andrawes, priest of St. Mark's Church in Washington, to another church in the United States that will be announced later.

Abba Mina, Bishop of Massaga, Vancouver and Western Canada, on Saturday, ordained 44 deacons in different ranks. According to a statement of the Church, 25 young people were ordained as Epsaltos (The Hymnist), 12 were ordained as Anaghnostos (The Reader) and 7 were ordained as Epideacon (The Subdeacon) during celebrating the Holy Mass in the church of St. Mary and St. Athnasious in Massaga.

Abba Gobriel, bishop of Beni Suef, said that St. Mina Church in West Nile doesn’t have a chair dedicated for the Pope, but they are going to borrow one from St. George Church in Beni Suef.

The movement of 9-9 announced to protest in the great cathedral of St. Mark in Abbasia, on 4 March. Wahid Shenouda, founder of the movement, said that they demand conducting the General Congregation Councils and preventing bishops and priests from traveling abroad for two years.

Archimandrite Azaria of Jerusalem, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Jerusalem and Palestine, said that the new bishop of Jerusalem will be ordained on February 27 and 28. He explained that the new Bishop will be Egyptian as usual.

Egyptian Federation for Human Rights holds a conference on Sunday entitled "contempt of religion law between restrictions and freedoms "

Egyptian armed forces started rebuilding the church of St. George in El-Arish. This comes after President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi promised to restore all churches demolished in the attacks of the Muslim Brotherhood by the end of 2016.

The Coptic Orthodox Church celebrates the first anniversary of the slaughter of 21 Copts by ISIS in Libya on February 15.

The Egyptian embassy in Berlin will receive on Tuesday a 2,700 year-old statue that was seized in a Germany-based auction house last year, state news agency MENA reported Saturday.

The occupancy rates in Luxor hotels rose to 64 percent, Luxor tourism police announced Thursday. The increase comes in conjunction with the mid-school year vacation, which will extend until mid-February. The total number of guests in Luxor hotels stands at 2,505, including 523 foreigners and 1,982 Egyptians. The occupancy rate by foreigners stands at 13 percent, compared to 51 percent by Egyptians, according to the statistics of the Luxor Tourism and Antiquities Police Department.

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi ordered on Saturday that EGP 1 billion from the Long Live Egypt Fund be assigned to build 100,000 affordable housing units.

The body of an Italian graduate student who disappeared last month has been found with multiple stab wounds, cigarette burns and other signs of torture and a "slow death" on a roadside on the outskirts of Cairo, an Egyptian prosecutor said Thursday. Giulio Regeni, a 28-year-old Cambridge University PhD candidate who had been researching labor rights in Egypt, went missing on Jan. 25, the fifth anniversary of the popular uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak. His body was found Wednesday.

Dozens of Copts in Samalout demonstrated in front of the police station demanding the return of a Coptic minor girl who disappeared last week.

The fugitive terrorist Asem Abdul Maguid who belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood called members and supporters of the terrorist organization to carry weapon and lead a civil war in Egypt if there is no revolution against current regime.

Coptic Orthodox Church announced that Father Elijah of St. Mina monastery is the new Bishop of Jerusalem. It’s worth mentioning that Pope Tawadros has traveled to Jerusalem to attend the funeral of former Bishop of Jerusalem Abba Abraham. The new Bishop will be ordained on February 28.

In his weekly sermon, Pope Tawadros II, invited the people to practice meekness before fasting. Pope added that a meek person is beloved by the others for several good features.

Expiatory Fatawa and Militant Opinions Observatory of Egyptian Fatwa House warned against a new Android application of ISIS radio that is used to spread its ideology among its members and supporters.

Father Poulos Halim, spokesman for the Coptic Orthodox Church, said that the church is holding seminar for nuns of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Pope has delivered a speech about arts in the holy bible.

In his interview with Copts United, Dr. Michel Fahmy, writer and researcher, denounced preventing funeral prayers for non-Orthodox Christians inside Coptic churches and described it as intolerance that doesn’t respect humanity.

Coptic church celebrates the feast of St. Paul of Thebes, commonly known as Paul, the First Hermit, on February 9th.

Lawyer Hamdy Asiouty told Copts United that it’s shameful to arrest 4 Coptic children on charges of defamation of religions for a 20 seconds video in which they criticize ISIS.