Rome: Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday condemned
the "cowardly" New Year`s Eve suicide attack on a church in
Egypt which killed 21 people and left scores injured.
"This cowardly gesture of death, like that in which
bombs were left near the homes of Christians in Iraq to force
them to leave, is an offence against God and all humanity,"
Benedict told hundreds of pilgrims in St Peter`s Square.
"Faced with this strategy of violence targeting
Christians, and the consequences for all the population, I
pray for the victims and their loved ones," the pope said
during his Sunday Angelus address.
21 people were killed and 79 wounded in the
suicide bombing on the Coptic Al-Qiddissin church in
Alexandria. President Hosni Mubarak said the attack was the
work of "foreign hands".
PTI
