Mubarak condoles with Vatican over death of Pope John

Originally published April 7, 2005

Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak delegated Presidential Chamberlain Hamed Abdel Razik to call on the Vatican Embassy in Cairo for expressing condolences over the death of Pope John Paul II of the Vatican.

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