Pope Shenouda III is the acceptable face of the newsworthy dead – photos
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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Coptic Pope Shenouda III leads Christmas Eve Mass at the Coptic cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. Egyptian authorities put up a heavy security cordon around the Coptic cathedral in Cairo hours before Christmas Eve Mass, using bomb-sniffing dogs, metal detectors and officers to try to prevent another attack like the New Year's suicide bombing of a church in Alexandria that killed 21 people. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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