DAMASCUS, (SANA) – President Bashar al-Assad sent on Sunday a cable of condolences to Head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces of Egypt, Field Marshal Mohammad Hussein Tantawi, over the death of Pope Shenouda III, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark Episcopate.
In the cable, President al-Assad expressed on behalf of the Syrian people and on his own behalf heartfelt condolences to Field Marshal Tantawi and the Egyptian people over the death of Pope Shenouda.
President al-Assad considered Pope Shenouda as an example of religious men who were distinguished for their openness and wisdom.
Pope Shenouda,89, died yesterday, and he was known for his firm stances on the Palestinian Cause which rejected normalization with the Zionist entity and judization of Jerusalem.
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