Pope Francis shuts down Egypt amid extraordinary security

Pope Francis delivers his homily during a Mass in the Egypt's tiny Catholic community, at the Air Defense Stadium in Cairo, Saturday, April 29, 2017. Pope Francis came to Egypt on Friday for a historic visit to the Arab and Muslim majority nation aimed at presenting a united Christian-Muslim front to repudiate violence committed in God's name. Just six years ago, on January 1, 2011, bombs went off at a Coptic church in Alexandria, leaving 23 people dead. In Rome, Pope Benedict XVI denounced the atrocity in his Angelus address. The pontiff said he had “learned with sorrow the news of the serious attack against the Coptic Christian community in Alexandria, Egypt. This cowardly act of death, such as planting bombs close to the homes of Christians in Iraq to force them to leave, offends God and all of humanity, who only yesterday prayed for peace and began a new year with hope. “In the face of this strategy of violence that has targeted Christians, and has consequences f...