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Pope Shenouda III is the acceptable face of the newsworthy dead – photos

by | 18th, March 2012

HOW do you treat the newsworthy ill and dead? Do you broadcast their faces? Was it right to show the face of Fabrice Muamba, the Bolton Wanderers footballer who stopped breathing during a football match? Is it right to show the face of Pope Shenouda III seated upright on the wooden throne of Mar Morqos, or St. Mark, at the Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo, Egypt? March 18, 2012. Pope Shenouda III was patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church. He was the leader Egypt’s Christian minority (around 8 million in number and threatened by Islamic militants). He was 88.

Pope Shenouda will reamin sitting in state until the funeral on Tuesday and burial at St Bishoy monastery of Wadi Natrun in the Nile Delta.

When is it right and when is it wrong to show the faces of the ill and dead?

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Pope Shenouda III, the head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, holds a Coptic cross as he leads a midnight service to celebrate Christ's resurrection at the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, late Saturday, April 18, 2009. Copts follow a doctrine similar to Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox churches and are believed to make up about 10 percent of Egypt's population of 77 million - making them the largest Christian community in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)



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