Pope Tawadros, social solidarity min. discuss supporting Minya's attack victims

CAIRO - 8 November 2018: Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark Diocese on Thursday discussed in a meeting with Social Solidarity Minister Ghada Wali means of providing support for the families of those who were killed in a recent terrorist attack in Minya.

The minister and the pontiff also probed ways of providing backing for those who were injured in the heinous attack on a bus carrying a number of Copts while returning from the Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor in the Upper Egyptian governorate, Coptic Orthodox Church's spokesman Boulos Halim said.

The meeting was held at the premises of the Cathedral of St. Mark in Abbassiya