Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II on Monday issued a message of condolences to Tawadros II, the Pope of Alexandria & Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy Apostolic See of St. Mark the Evangelist of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.

Karekin II addressed the condolences to Tawadros II and the Coptic Christians in connection with the terrorists’ recent brutal killing of twenty-one Egyptian Copts in Libya.

In his message, the Armenian Catholicos also condemned this crime, and called on the international community to make more efforts to establish justice and solidarity in the Middle East, so as to exclude violence in the regions where Christians and Muslims live in peace and harmony for centuries.