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Church sources stated that the committee responsible for amending the regulations list for selecting the patriarch did not yet decide on whether the bishops of dioceses can be nominated for the position of Pope (Girgis Fikrī, al- Shurūq, Feb. 5, p. 3). Read original text in Arabic.   
Dr. Yusuf al- Qaradāwī, head of the International Union of Muslim Scholar has requested the members of the union to convene in Turkey to discuss the crisis that the Muslim Brotherhood organization is going through.
Pope Tawadros II has left Alexandria after a pastoral visit that continued for three days. 
Dr. ‘Ibrahīm Nigm, advisor to the grand muftī, stated that the Muslim Brotherhood organization is resorting to the taqiyah method and trying to set the stage until the opportunity comes to announce that it has adopted ISIS’s thought. 
The Chaldean Diocese in Cairo, in cooperation with the Coptic churches, has announced the organization of a convoy to assist asylum seekers and those Christians dispersed by ISIS.
‘Abūd al- Zumur, leader in the Jamā’ah al- ‘Islāmiyah, stated that carrying weapons against the army and the police is religiously prohibited (harām).
Shaykh Muhammad ‘Abd al- Rāziq, head of the religious sector in the Ministry of Endowments, said that the Ministry will start during the coming period to form a committee of supreme scholars in al-Azhar. 
Al- Azhar Shaykh Ahmad al- Tayyib, in a visit to the site of the Suez Canal, stated that building the new canal is a form of jihad and an application of the civility of Islam and its tolerance.
Pope Tawadros has met the council of the Alexandrian priests on Saturday and discussed with them a number of pastoral issues pertaining to the church service in Alexandria. 

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