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Pope calls for peace

    NAIROBI

    Pope John Paul II on Wednesday called for peace in Burundi and said Burundian refugees should be allowed to go home and humanitarian agencies should be given access countrywide. News organisations quoted him as telling his weekly general audience in St Peter’s Square the future of a country “is not prepared by the forced displacement of people, nor by violence and armed conflict”.

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