Christians gather to bid farewell to Egypt’s Pope

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CAIRO (Reuters) – Christians gathered on Sunday to pay final respects to Pope Shenouda III, who sought to soothe sectarian tension in his four decades atop Egypt’s Orthodox Church but saw increasing flareups in the majority Muslim nation in the last months of his life.

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