Religious leaders

condemn bombing

NEW YORK – Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders have condemned the New Year's Eve bombing that killed 21 worshippers and wounded many others at All Saints Church in Alexandria, Egypt.

“The perpetrators of this outrage are apparently so blinded by hatred that they have lost touch with the tenets of any known faith,” said the Rev Michael Kinnamon, top executive of the US National Council of Churches. “It is simply agonizing to think that many around the world will mistake this horror as the attack of one religious community on another. Christians, Jews and Muslims around the world are united by their outrage and condemnation of this soul-less act.” – United Methodist News Service.