A popular assistant parish priest at St. Michael’s Catholic Church, Sharjah, UAE dies from #coronavirus

An assistant parish priest at St. Michael’s Catholic Church, Sharjah died on Sunday evening “due to multiple complications arising from COVID-19”, the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia (AVOSA) posted on its website.

Fr. Youssef Sami Youssef OFM Cap., 62, served for the Arabic and French speaking Catholics in Sharjah. He was under treatment for almost three weeks at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City in Ajman and received expert care, ventilation and stem cell therapy, according to AVOSA.
“However, since he already had some underlying medical conditions, he soon started to develop critical multiple organ failures,” added the vicariate, which is a territorial jurisdiction of the Catholic Church covering the UAE, Oman and Yemen.
A requiem Mass will be offered for Fr. Youssef today, Tuesday (May 19) at 7pm.