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Pope Francis gestures as he delivers his Angelus prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter’s Square | ASHARQ AL-AWSAT English Archive 2005 -2017
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FILE – This is a Sunday, March 17, 2013 file photo of Pope Francis gestures as he delivers his Angelus prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican. The election of a Jesuit pope devoted to the poor and stressing a message of mercy rather than condemnation has brought a glimmer of hope to American nuns who have been the subject of a Vatican crackdown accusing them of having focused too much on social justice at the expense of other church issues such as abortion, according to interviews with several groups. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File)