Relatives of two Israeli soldiers held by Hezbollah met Pope Benedict XVI to appeal for their release. Five members of the families of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, whose abduction by Hezbollah last July triggered a monthlong war, spoke to Benedict in a Vatican audience Wednesday.
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