H.H. Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the see of St. Mark’s, mourned Fr. Samaan Shehata, a priest in elFashn, who was stabbed during his service in elSalam City.
He continued in a statement: “We Parade Fr. Samaan a martyr to paradise, and as we suffer for his departure, but what we are proud of is that he departed to heaven in victory parade like his predecessors of the Church at previous times.”