02 January 2011
Damascus - His Holiness Ignatius Zakka I Iwas Patriarch of Antioch and All the East for the Syriac Orthodox and Supreme Head of the Universal Syriac Orthodox Church denounced on Sunday the terrorist attack that targeted a church in Alexandria, resulting in dozens of casualties and injuries.

In a cable to Pope of Alexandria and the Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy Apostolic See of Saint Mark the Evangelist Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, Patriarch Zakka I Iwas offered condolences to Pope Shenouda and the people of Egypt, praying to God to grant the victims' families solace.

© SANA (Syria Arab News Agency) 2011