CAIRO – 8 April 2022: Ahmed El-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Egypt’s top Islamic authority, Al-Azhar, extended condolences to Pope Tawadros II, the Pope of the Orthodox Church of Alexandria, and the Coptic people after a priest was killed in Alexandria. Archipriest Arsanious Wadeed, the priest of Church of Virgin Mary and Saint Paul in Alexandria was killed late Thursday after a man attacked him with a cold weapon on the street. “Al-Azhar sheikh stresses that killing a soul is a major sin that brings God’s wrath and punishment in the hereafter. God has made killing one person the same as killing all people,” Al-Azhar said in a statement. Pope Tawadros mourned the priest of Alexandria, saying: “We bid farewell to a virtuous priest and an active servant.”
