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Papal mission

The Pope's aircraft took off from Rome for Kingston, the first stop of the 60th foreign trip of his papacy, AP reports from Kingston. The Pope's visit is intended to follow up his apology last year for Roman Catholicism's role in supporting slavery and New World colonisation.

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