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Coptic Pope Shenouda III, left, leads Christmas Eve Mass at the Coptic cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday. Egyptian authorities put up a heavy security cordon around the Coptic cathedral in Cairo hours before Christmas Eve Mass, using bomb-sniffing dogs, metal detectors and officers to try to prevent another attack like the New Year's suicide bombing of a church in Alexandria that killed 21 people.
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