CATHOLICOS OF ALL ARMENIANS SENDS CONDOLENCES TO THE POPE OF THE COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH
13:56, 17 Feb 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan
His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All
Armenians; sent a letter of condolence to His Holiness Theodoros II,
Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa, and leader of the
Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria on the occasion of the murder
of twenty-one Coptic Christians by Libyan terrorists.
“On behalf of the members of the Brotherhood of Holy Etchmiadzin and
the Supreme Spiritual Council we convey our deepest sympathies and
condolences to the Coptic Christians, Egyptian people and families
of those killed.”
Condemning the crime, His Holiness called on the international
community to put more efforts towards justice and reconciliation
in the Middle East, and to elminate violence in the regions where
Christians and Muslims have lived in peace and harmony for centuries.