Placing flowers, lighting a candle and praying at the site where dozens of Coptic Orthodox Christians were killed by an ISIS militant last year, Pope Francis and Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II have paid homage to those who were killed for their faith.
Pope Francis and Pope Tawadros walked in a short procession to the Church of St Peter, where 29 people died and 31 were wounded on December 11. The faithful chanted a song of martyrs, and some clashed cymbals under the darkened evening sky.
Inside the small church, the leaders of several other Christian communities in Egypt as well as Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople sat before the congregation, which included family members of the victims.
