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In this picture provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis meets relatives of victims and survivors of the Lampedusa deadly migrant shipwreck during a private audience at the Vatican, Wednesday Oct. 1, 2014. Around 370 people, most of them Eritrean and Syrian asylum-seekers, drowned on Oct. 3, 2013 when their smugglers' boat capsized off the island of Lampedusa. Pope Francis has called for the Europe to open its doors to refugees as he marked the anniversary of the deadly shipwreck. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)

Put your gifts at the service of others, Pope Francis exhorts

By by Elise Harris - Catholic News Agency

An Iraqi Christian woman lights candles before a Christmas mass at the Mother Teresa Catholic Church in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec 25, 2013. Militants on Wednesday launched two separate attacks against Christians in Baghdad, killing more than a dozen people, officials said. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani))

Iraqi couple finds courage in a Pope who suffers with them

By Elise Harris - Catholic News Agency

Pope Francis walks with his pastoral staff as he arrives to attend a Vespers prayer in the Church of Jesus, in Rome, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014. AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis: Satan seduces by disguising evil as good

By by Elise Harris - Catholic News Agency