The governor of Luxor and Evangelical Church leaders in the governorate agree on demolishing a church with the reopening of the archaeologically-significant Ramses Road.

The governor had visited the church and talked to people there. The governorate assigned a 2,000 square-meter land to build a church instead, promising to finance the construction of the new church.

In a different context, Khalīl reports on the “first conference to be held in the Middle East on Middle Eastern Christian emigration” that will held by the Egyptian Committee for Justice and Peace and headed by Cardinal Antonius Najīb, the patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church in Egypt. The conference will also discuss issues related to Muslim-Christian dialogue.

[Reviewer: Similar news was reported on the same day in al-Jumhūrīyah (p. 8), al-Ahrām (p. 4), al-Akhbār (p. 9) and al-Wafd (p. 3)]