Coptics mourn Pope Shenouda’s death

Thousands of coptic christians mourned the death of Egyptian Coptic Christian Pope Shenouda III, on Saturday. Shenouda, the 88-year old patriarch of most of Egypt's estimated 12 million Christians, died from old age, his political adviser told Reuters Bells tolled in Cairo's Abbasiya district, site of Egypt's main Coptic cathedral, as the news spread. Thousands of mourners struggled through the slightly open gates of the cathedral, cramming their way inside where thousands more stood in prayer.