Anorak

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

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?

13083849

Image 4 of 18

The body of Pope Shenouda III seated on the throne of Mar Morqos, or St. Mark, is seen during his funeral at the Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, March 18, 2012. Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church who led Egypt's Christian minority for 40 years during a time of increasing tensions with Muslims, died Saturday. He was 88. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)



Posted: 18th, March 2012 | In: Reviews Comment (1) | TrackBack | Permalink