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Sunday, May 25, 2014
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Sunday, May 25, 2014
Francis invites Peres, Abbas to Vatican for prayer for peace
The peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians having collapsed last month, Pope Francis calls on President Shimon Peres and his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas to join him in a prayer for peace at the Vatican.
“I offer my home in the Vatican as a place for this encounter of prayer,” Francis said after mass in Bethlehem.
The Bishop of Rome will now have lunch with five Palestinian families before visiting the Dheisheh refugee camp just outside the West Bank city.
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