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Egypt Mourns Coptic Pope

Description:The leader of Egypt's Christain community - sitting in state. The body of Pope Shenouda III is displayed at a cathedral in downtown Cairo on Sunday, hours after his death at the age of 88. Crowds gathered to pay their repects to a man who was the spiritual leader of the country's 8 million Christains. Many of those mourners were overcome by emotion. This bishop says Shenouda was instrumental in soothing tensions between Egypt's Christain and Muslim communities. (1:09)

Source: Reuters

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