Pope calls for Palestinian state

Thursday, May 14, 2009

BETHLEHEM, West Bank -- Pope Benedict XVI made a plea Wednesday for a Palestinian state, mixing prayer and politics at Jesus' birthplace and expressing solidarity at a refugee camp with "all the homeless Palestinians who long to be able to return to their birthplace."

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