Mohamed Salah, the great player for Liverpool and captain of the Egyptian national team, sent money to help restore the Abu Sefein church in Giza Governorate following a severe fire there last week.
Salah reportedly contributed $156,000 (or roughly 3 million Egyptian pounds) to the church’s reconstruction. The Abu Sefein Church caught fire on Sunday, killing 41 people and wounding at least 14. A few hours after the catastrophe, Salah expressed his sorrow for the church victims on his Twitter account.
Salah tweeted his deepest condolences to the Abu Sefein Church victims, with his best wishes for a rapid recovery for all the injured. The victims of the church fire in Egypt were lamented on the Liverpool Football Club’s official website. In response to the church fire at Martyr Abu Sefein in the Giza Governorate of Egypt, Liverpool posted on Twitter their deepest condolences from Liverpool FC to all the families of the martyrs. They also wish a rapid recovery to all the injured. The Giza church fire victims have been sent condolences by the Egyptian Football Association.
The Egyptian Football Association’s Board of Directors, led by Professor Gamal Allam, released the following statement, in which they expressed their sincere condolences and sympathy to His Excellency President Sisi and the vast majority of the Egyptian people for the Sefein church victims. They prayed to God Almighty to bless the innocent victims with his mercy and forgiveness and to grant the injured a speedy recovery.
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Funerals for 41 people who died in a fire that ravaged a Coptic Christian church during mass and forced worshipers to leap from windows have been held in two churches in Cairo. The Abu Sefein church was damaged by the fire on Sunday, which was attributed to an electrical failure. Imbaba, a working-class neighborhood west of the Nile River and a part of Greater Cairo’s Giza Governorate, is densely populated. On Sunday evening, hundreds of people gathered to pay their respects in and around the two churches in Giza, where priests offered prayers for the deaths. A priest from the church named Father Abdel-Messih Bekhit was one of the coffins that the pallbearers had to push their way through to reach for.
The Egyptian Coptic Church and the health ministry said that there had been 41 fatalities and 14 injuries before emergency workers were able to put out the fire. According to witnesses of the fire on Sunday morning, people raced into the multi-story place of worship to rescue those who were trapped, but the rescuers were soon overtaken by heat and toxic fumes. Egypt, a 103 million-strong country with a majority of Muslims, is home to at least 10 million Copts, making them the largest Christian population in the Middle East.
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