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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Pope Francis swept away years of tension between the administration and the Roman Catholic Church on Monday during what Maduro called an “extraordinary” meeting.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has asked Pope Francis to canonize a doctor who tended to the poor in Caracas and is considered a saint already by many Venezuelans.
Pope Francis should pressure Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to focus on promoting democracy and peaceful coexistence to ease tensions with the socialist government's opponents, the Catholic Church's top representative in the country said Sunday.
