Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, condemned the terrorist attack that occurred inside a Coptic monastery in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Tuesday.
In the strongest terms, I condemn Al-Tayeb, Sheikh Al-AzharThe attack that targeted the monastery of Saint Mark the Apostle and Saint Bishop Samuel, affiliated with the Coptic Orthodox Church, and resulted in the killing of three monks. In the church.
Al-Tayeb stressed in an official statement that “attacking people who are safe in places of worship is a hateful terrorist act, and that religious laws, with their values that call for peace and love, can never be a justification for murder.” And terrorism“.
The Sheikh of Al-Azhar offered “sincere condolences and sincere sympathy to His Holiness Pope Tawadros Second, the Pope of Alexandria and the Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, and the families of the victims, calling for the perpetrators to be quickly arrested and brought to justice.
The Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church said on Tuesday that three Egyptian monks were killed in a “criminal attack” inside a Coptic monastery in Johannesburg, while police in South Africa said they were investigating the incident.
A church spokesman said in a statement published on: Facebook “Today, three monks were subjected to a criminal attack in our Coptic monastery,” which led to their death.
Police spokesman Colonel Dimakatsu Nvhoholi said: South Africa The authorities are investigating the killing of three monks in a church in the town of Kalinan, near Pretoria.
He added in a statement that the three were stabbed to death, while a fourth person who survived the accident said that he was struck with a metal rod before fleeing and hiding.
He continued, explaining: “The motive behind the killing is still unknown at this stage,” noting that the suspects “apparently left the site without taking any valuable items.”
The Egyptian Church’s statement said that one of the dead monks was “the priest monk Takla Samueli, the representative of the Diocese of South Africa.”
The statement confirmed that an internal investigation had been opened into the incident and the Egyptian ambassador in Johannesburg had been notified.
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