Egypt's Coptic Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria has died. Pope Shenouda was in his late 80s and had been in poor health for several years. He'd been the leader of the Middle East's largest Christian minority since 1971, but sometimes had a stormy relationship with the political elite, as Jon Leyne in Cairo reports.
埃及科普特教皇欣诺达三世去世,享年近90岁,最近几年他健康状况一直欠佳。他自1971年以来一直是中东最大的基督教少数派的领导人,但有时与政治精英的关系很差。Jon Leyne在开罗报道。
In 1981, he fell out with President Sadat and was sent into internal exile for four years before he was allowed back into public life by President Mubarak. Under his leadership, Egypt's Coptic Christians were seen as giving tacit support to the regime of Hosni Mubarak in return for a degree of protection from Islamist extremists. Whoever succeeds him now faces the task of reassuring the Coptic Christian community as the Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood look on the verge of sharing power in Egypt for the first time.
1981年,他与总统萨达特不和,总统将他放逐国内四年之久,后经穆巴拉克总统允许才重返政治生涯。在他的领导下,埃及科普特基督教被视为穆巴拉克政权的暗中支持者,回报是在一定程度上保护该教不受伊斯兰极端分子的破坏。由于伊斯兰穆斯林兄弟组织即将首次分享埃及大权,因此,无论谁继任欣诺达的位置,都要面临抚慰科普特基督教社区的任务。