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Priest dies from stabbing on seaside promenade in Egypt

April 11, 2022

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CWN Editor's Note: Father Arsanious Wadid, a 56-year-old Coptic Orthodox priest, was stabbed to death in Alexandria, Egypt.

The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar (located in Cairo), recognized by some Sunni Muslims as the highest Muslim authority, decried the attack and said that “homicide is a major sin that arouses God’s wrath and is punishable in the afterlife.”

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