Egypt's Coptic Pope Shenuda III dies

Egypt's Coptic Pope Shenuda III, spiritual leader of the Middle East's largest Christian minority, has died aged 88 after a battle with illness, leaving the country's Copts in mourning.
He died Saturday after suffering "a severe heart attack", sources at the church told the official MENA news agency.
Shenuda led the Copts, estimated at 10 percent of Egypt's population of more than 80 million, for the best part of a generation, in which Egypt was hit by a wave of Islamic militancy from which he sought to protect his people.