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I wish to make add my voice to the cry which rises up with increasing anguish from every part of the world, from every people, from the heart of each person, from the one great family which is humanity: it is the cry for peace!

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Pope Francis
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: December 17
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Jorge Mario Bergoglio
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