Pope Shenouda III - Rest in Peace

News just in via  an Iraqi  friend, Aziz Nour of the Oriental Churches Association

With great sorrow  and a since of loss I just heard the  official
announcement of the death of Pope Shenouda III at the age of 89 years .
Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

The death of Pope Shenouda will mark an end of an era. A legacy and hallmark
of  more than four decades of ecclesiastical leadership will prove to be
indelible in the  history of the Coptic Church.

 Pope Shenouda III  left the Coptic Orthodox Church and the entire
Christian Middle East with a great and irreplaceable  leadership void  at
 the juncture of the beginning of a fluid, unsettling and perilous new
ear for the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Christianity in the Middle
East.

May God rest his sole in peace and provide the Coptic Church with a
leaders of the caliber of Pope Shenouda III

Your prayers for the Coptic Church and Christians in the Middle East is
greatly appreciated.

Yours in Christ

Aziz