Pope John Paul II appealed for concrete steps to end the “horror and despair” caused by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In his Easter message to the world on Sunday, the 81-year-old pontiff denounced the “tragic spiral of abuse of power and killings that bloody the Holy Land, plunged again in these very days into horror and despair.”
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