Photographs and video footage of the 10 May funeral of 37-year-old Wael Saad Tawadros, who was executed on 9 May 2021, went viral on social media. Mr Tawadros had been a monk named Ishaia al-Maqari at St Macarius Monastery in Wadi al-Natroun in Egypt’s Western Desert, but was defrocked on 5 August 2018 for “gross … Continue reading Church statement on execution of murderer of St Macarius’s Abbot