Mourners Swarm Casket of Egyptian Pope

Egyptian soldiers carry the coffin of Pope Shenouda III, the head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church, during his funeral in the Abassiya Cathedral in Cairo on Tuesday. Thousands of mourners dressed in black gathered in Cairo on Tuesday for the funeral of Egypt’s Orthodox Christian Pope Shenouda, who spent his final years trying to comfort a community disturbed by the rise of political Islam.