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Coptic pope, Shenouda, dies at 88

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March 18, 2012

Pope Shenouda III, head of the Coptic Christian Church, has died. He was 88.

For more than 40 years, Shenouda worked to keep the peace between Egypt’s Muslim and Christian communities—no small task. But he also opposed Egypt’s 1979 peace treaty with Israel and was accused by Anwar Sadat of ratcheting up religions tensions.

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