Sunday, March 18, 2012

Pope of Egypt's Coptic Christian Church dies

Egyptian Christian Copts mourn the death of Pope Shenouda III (portrait), the spiritual leader of the Middle East's largest Christian minority, at the Saint Mark Coptic cathedral in Cairo on Saturday.Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church who led Egypt's Christian minority for 40 years during a time of increasing tensions with Muslims, has died. He was 88.




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