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In this March 26, 2014, photo provided by Catholic Coalition of Immigrant Rights, Pope Francis touches 10-year-old Jersey Vargas, who traveled to the Vatican from Los Angeles to plead with him to help spare her father from deportation, during a public audience at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City. Her father, Mario Vargas, in the United States illegally, had been in federal custody and faced possible deportation. After speaking with Francis, Mario Vargas was released on bond from immigration detention, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Friday, March 28, 2014. Jersey Vargas was part of a California delegation that sought to encourage the Vatican to prod President Obama on immigration reform. (AP Photo/Catholic Coalition of Immigrant Rights)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, MARCH 29 AND THEREAFTER - In this image made from video provided by The Order of The Ark Community, Pope Francis speaks to Bishop Tony Palmer, an ecumenical officer for the Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches, who made a video of his meeting with the pontiff at the Vatican in early 2014. Religious leaders say the informal greeting from Pope Francis has reset relations between the Roman Catholic Church and one of its fiercest competitors around the world, Pentecostals. The message was directed to the spirit-filled Christians whose popular movements have for decades been draining parishioners from the Catholic Church. (AP Photo/The Order of The Ark Community, Tony Palmer)
