CAIRO: The Patriarch of the Egyptian Coptic Church, Pope Shenouda III, headed to the United States on Sunday for medical treatment. MENA, Egypt's official news agency, reported that Pope Shenouda is going for a checkup more than two years after receiving treatment for a broken thigh bone. Pope Shenouda, who turns 88 in August, will be admitted to a Cleveland, Ohio, hospital where he underwent treatment for the broken thigh bone in 2008. Shenouda, who heads the Middle East's largest Christian community, suffers back and kidney problems and has travelled repeatedly to the United States in recent years for medical treatment. In May 2008 he was hospitalized in Cleveland for kidney problems and in June of the same year he returned after falling and breaking his thigh bone. He returned home four months later. BM