Pope phones Copt patriarch

(ANSA) - Vatican City, 16 - Pope Francis on Monday phoned the patriarch of the Orthodox Coptic Church, Tawadros II, to voice his "profound participation in the pain" of the Coptic church after the "barbaric" beheading of 21 Coptic Christians by Islamic State militants, Vatican Spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said. Francis will pray for the dead and on Tuesday, the day of their funerals, he will "join spiritually the prayers and grief" of the Coptic Church as he celebrates morning mass.
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