A criminal court in Alexandria, Egypt, sentenced a man to death Wednesday after he was found guilty of murdering a Coptic Christian priest in the Mediterranean port city in April, Africanews reported on Thursday.
An unidentified person stabbed and killed 56-year-old Coptic Christian priest Arsanios Wadid while Wadid was accompanying youths from his congregation on a beach promenade in the Sidi Bishr area of the Alexandria Wharf on April 7. handed it over to the local police.
Wadid’s official title is “Priest of the Church of Our Lady and Mar Boulos”. According to the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, he ruled his parish in the Karmuz district of Alexandria’s Meharam Bek district.
“The Alexandria Criminal Court presented the name of the convict convicted of willful murder to the Mufti of the Republic. [of Wadid] After being declared “responsible for his actions” by a specialist psychologist under court procedure, Africanews reported on May 19.
“Mufti” is an Islamic legal adviser used in predominantly Muslim Egypt as part of the legal system based on Islamic law, or sharia. The Egyptian constitution states that “Islam is the religion of the State… and the principles of Islamic Sharia are the primary source of law.”
The “republican mufti” that Africanews cited on Thursday will reportedly hand down the death sentence to Wadid’s killer at the hearing on June 11, but this is often a formality in Egypt, the third most commonly enforced death penalty. [sic] Countries around the world, according to Amnesty International.
The Alexandria Criminal Court’s decision to prosecute an unidentified killer who was found guilty of murdering a Coptic Christian priest last month comes to the fore in Egypt, where the Coptic Christian community is often discriminated against by Islamic authorities.
The term “Coptic” is used to refer to either a member of Egypt’s “native Christian ethno-religious community” or a follower of the Coptic Orthodox Church, reportedly the largest Christian organization in Egypt. english encyclopedia. Copts make up 10 to 15 percent of Egypt’s 103 million population and the largest Christian community in the Middle East.
“These [Copts] feeling that they are not included in many positions [in Egypt] and i regret [Egyptian] “The law is very strict for church building and more liberal for mosques,” he said.
The police came under pressure from radical Islamists, especially after the military overthrew Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in 2013 by burning churches, schools and homes, the news agency reported.
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