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The Kapedo Catholic Church, located on the outskirts of Kapedo village and the security camps, has become a soft target for criminals. Over the years, many residents have been attacked and some killed ...

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Parolin also anointed the church’s altar, dedicating it as where the relics of Pope St. John Paul II and the recently canonized Holy Martyrs of Damascus and others will be placed.

The Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, on Friday consecrated a new church at a place on the banks of the Jordan River that the Catholic Church officially recognizes as the ...