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Tearful and wearing mourning black, tens of thousands of Egyptian Coptic Christians joined Tuesday for a funeral Mass for their patriarch, Pope Shenouda III, led by senior clerics at the main cathedral in Cairo.

CAIRO
"After God, he was our only protector,"
"I know he is now in a better place, but it is difficult now he's gone. We miss you," said grief-stricken Marianne Saad as she stood in the crowd outside the cathedral.