CAIRO -17 February 2020: Pope Francis sent a video message on the sixth anniversary of the killing of 21 Coptic Orthodox Christians in Libya by the Islamic States (ISIS), explained that those 21 Christians who “bore witness to Jesus Christ” were “ordinary men” who went abroad to support their families. “Today is the day I have in my heart, that February of 2015,” the Pope said. “I hold in my heart that baptism of blood, those twenty-one men baptised as Christians with water and the Spirit, and that day also baptised with blood.”“They are our Saints, Saints of all Christians, Saints of all Christian denominations and traditions,” the Pope affirmed. “They are those who have blanched their lives in the blood of the Lamb, they are those... of the people of God, the faithful people of God."

Source: Libya Today February 17, 2021 12:00 UTC