His Holiness Pope Tawadros has started a project to train 1000 church leaders in order to empower them to teach and lead the congregation. They were trained to use the Bible, liturgy, church history, the writings of church fathers and church laws. The training included topics like Coptic identity and Coptic art. The project is divided into three levels to be implemented over three years ending in 2019. The first level started at Mary Land in Shorouk city from September 23 to October 14, 2016. Five groups from all over Egypt received training over topics like the Holy Trinity, Church unity, the priesthood, and the Coptic identity.

Before June 30th 2013, all political parties was trying to prove that they are existing and their voice was so loud in criticising and commenting in every event, however, after June 30th, I barely can hear their voice in the political life. There are many factors explain why the political parties are silent but these factors cannot be a reason to continue silent. One of these factors that the political parties don’t have the tools to make any real change as most of the parties are week and suffer from internal dispute. Some other factors related to the president Sisi himself, as they consider him the saviour after he could get rid of the Muslims Brotherhood and they believe that they can’t be opponent to the person who did this favor for them.

I don’t like revolutions or changing of regimes since the alternative will be no better. However, I was hoping we will have peaceful protests on November 11th to express our rejection of the recent economic measures taken by the Egyptian government including the loans and projects. We have to express our rejection for such political and economical practices. This has not happened and therefore, the government is allowed to move from failure to failure and from crisis to another since it knows that the people will accept those practices and will never object.

I took a taxi in Alexandria and the driver was talking very proudly about Mona, the lady of Alexandria who was recently honored by the president for her struggle to provide for her family. The driver told me that people in Alexandria love Mona and talk about her hard work and struggle. She carries bags of food and delivers them to shops. She is an example of great Egyptian women.

Dr. Taleb Refaie, secretary-general of the World Tourism Organization, said that the 104 meeting of the organization was held in Luxor, which is a strong message to tourists from all over the world to come and visit Egypt. He added that he was very impressed by the wonderful view of the Nile River and the nature and history of his country that dates back to 7 thousand years ago.

We appreciate the teachers and call them messengers. Yet, they can be messengers for light or darkness. I remember several stories related to teachers some of them are positive and others are negative. Al-Jahiz, the famous writer and author of works of literature, and philosopher who lived in the 8th century was lucky to have a good teacher. The teacher was not good at science and philosophy, by also decided to support his student when he couldn’t afford for his family. The teacher gave him a lot of money to be able to dedicate his time for learning. This was hundreds of years ago.

Finally on my old beloved laptop with my old provided word processor to write a quick note about the newly elected USA president ! Well a lot of Egyptians expected all the presidential elections in USA was just for local consumption like in Egypt for decades and decades president was assigned and people do not even had the right but to say “Yes” the “No” voters should disappear ex-president R.I.P. Sadat asked once to see those people who dared and said NO! My own neighbour a very respectful true Egyptian the son of R.I.P. ex-army officer who in his old days was being treated in the same hospital with R.I.P. Omar Soliman in the next room! I resume this True Egyptian -my neighbour- predicted HELARY CLINTON will win! I said -Forgive me God as I sin- I hope she dies before Elections!

There are many things in life are basic needs and you can’t compromise them. Water, Electricity, and Medication are things we can’t tell any person to wait for long time until we solve the issues related to these basic things. We can’t ask any children he wants go to school to wait until the water come to wash his face and brush his teeth, otherwise, he will never go to school. The same for Medication, we can’t tell elder people to wait because the medicine they want is not available, otherwise, they will die before getting this medicine. I can’t imagine that Egypt with all their potential can’t solve simple issues like providing people with water, Medication and the same with Electricity.

This week brought several surprising events and surprising reactions as well. The government in Egypt decided to raise prices of fuel which increased the already increasing prices in Egyptian markets. At the end of the week, Donald Trump won the elections in the United States of America after he issued negative statements about Muslims and immigration. I thought that the two incidents will bring gloomy faces at work and streets. Yet, I was surprised to find my colleagues still smiling and telling jokes. I think that the Egyptians tend to have such unexpected reactions in such very difficult situations. We may think like: the worst has already happened and we have faced our fears! There is no use losing our smiles as well!

Two friends were walking near the mountains when they saw a black animal from a far. One of them said: Friend, do you see that crow over the mountain? His friend replied: Yes, but it's not a crow but a goat. Couple of minutes later, the animal flew. One said: See, I told you it is a crow. The other replied: it’s a goat even if flew!

Modern methods of education include many concepts like lecture, story, examples, argument, dialogue, representation, educational situations, practical methods and development of critical thinking. However, these modern methods are not very new as Jesus Christ used them hundreds of years ago. In her article entitled “thinking skills and education" Dr. Aida Nassif tells us about the importance of development of thinking of students from the very begging instead of what is called indoctrination education! Development of thinking abilities is a bridge to flee ignorance. Therefore, our students should learn how to develop their thinking abilities in all stages.

The name of Egypt’s former finance minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali exists no more on the lists of Interpol wanted names or travel ban lists. This is clear since he traveled to America America and many other countries like Nigeria and Liberia as an economic adviser. In fact, he offered the Egyptian regime several economic advises, but they were not considered by the government giving the increasing economic crisis in Egypt. It looks like the government only needed him to support Egypt to take the IMF loan, which they need more than his valuable advices. The success of this man and many countries that seek his advises proves that we lost this man when he was removed from the office of minister of finance. Unfortunately, our bad economic situation proves this idea.

After the longest ever Trip over time and time I traveled and as I refuse to let go of my weekly article I must keep it short and to the point! I'm in Manchester in the heart of all atrocities happening in this world! And yes I know with today's Technology each and every word I say or type it is recorded in my file with with MI6 awaiting the right time to eliminate me cause they see in me their enemy number 1! It would not be long before I die like King Farouk in a 100% clean mission, but I had made God my defender the most powerful protector, so no deadly diseases neither violence will hit me... Psalm 91!

In an unprecedented step the Central Bank of Egypt decided to float the Egyptian pound yesterday. This step lead the US Dollar reach about 15 Egyptian pound and more. The question we need to ask after this step Is it the right time to this step? From my simple knowledge, I can say that this decision has pros and cons; however, I need to explain some facts before ending up with conclusion. The first fact we need to know that Egypt imports more than exports. The second fact, Tourism industry suffer from long time and until the present time which is the main source of the foreign currency after the Suez canal. The third fact, the security and instability in Egypt is so high because of the political was between the current regime and Muslims Brotherhood.

I believe that the uncertain positions and statement of Mr. Mohamed Baradie needs a psychoanalyst to analyze his moody personality rather than a politician to judge his statements and actions. The man headed the Atomic Energy Authority, but this doesn’t mean he will be able to be a good politician because of that. His failure to understand the requirements of a politician led him to fail several times including escaping from the vice president office at a very critical moment in Egypt.

The Brazilian aircraft took off heading somewhere, but when it arrived, the pilot couldn’t see the airport. They tried to use the radio to determine where they are, but they failed. They could only think that they are very close to the airport. The fuel was gone and they had to have an emergency landing. They found themselves landing over a river in a forest and barely succeeded to land after they lost many lives on board. Patrols searched for the plan and found them more than 1000 kilometer away. They investigated the reason why the aircraft lost her mind and went astray. Investigations showed that the pilot made great mistake and enter the wrong coordinates and destination according to the old system.

Alfred Nobel was born on October 21, 1833 in Sweden. He wanted to make a useful invention for the world. Thus, he invented dynamite to help in mining and construction work. This was a great invention indeed, but was misused in wars and was a tool to kill many people. After reading a premature obituary which condemned him for profiting from the sales of arms and killing innocent people, he bequeathed his fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes. The Nobel Prizes were like an apology to the whole world for his invention that was misused in wars. His friends said he has always regretted this, especially after he was named by some journalists as “Death Maker”

With the 1st ever Egyptian Youth Conference I’ll stop counting the Egyptian Traditions cause when I started I had in mind 3-5 points I wanted to discuss under that title but as I go and dig up more and more traditions come to my mind and as I do not intend to keep counting in ROMAN NUMBERS (I..V..X) I decided to stop this count up but will keep going as I can! Today’s tradition is about my lost youth learning and getting educated just because when my parents had my age they had no Radios or TVs to help them learn, they had to go SCHOOLS! We all know Education system in Egypt is in a very BAD SHAPE however we could see youth in that 1st conference that took place in Sharm el Shekh 3 days ago very sophisticated obviously sophistication does not mean manners; generation 4 mobiles, Facebook and Internet help new generations to understand facts but do not teach manners on the contrary they might contribute in spoiling the little manners your parents could teach you, and those little manners they could teach you was not because they lack manners but because they did lack time to provide you in those difficult times when each and every commodity price climbs sky hi but they still can buy for you a Samsung or I phone pay for your private school lessons that will end up with you sheeting to pass your exams!

It seems the crisis between Egypt and Suadi Arabia will not end soon especially after the last statement from the saudi diplomate who made fun of Sisi when he was talking about his freidge. This was not the first crisis to happen between Egypt and Saudi arabia Lately. In the same month another crisis happened when Egypt vote with the russian resolution which made Saudi Arabia angry becuase of that. The main problem of Saudi Arabia that they want Egypt to follow them as subordinate, however, Egypt will never be subordinate to Saudi Arabia but they are insiisting to deal with Egypt in that way.