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Pope Francis praises the people in Morocco for their efforts to save Rayan, the five-year-old boy who fell down a 32-metre well in the north of the country earlier this week. Found dead in a tragic end to a five-day rescue operation that gripped the nation and the world, the emergency crews "put everything they had into it," the Pope says in the Angelus prayer. SOUNDBITE
Pope Francis celebrates Mass for Sweden's tiny Catholic community, made up of many refugees and migrants, praising as "blessed" those in this overwhelmingly non-religious nation who take in asylum seekers. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Pope Francis arrives in Sweden on Monday to take part in the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, a move which has been praised by Lutherans but criticized by Conservative Catholics.
Sweden plans to reject between 60,000 to 80,000 applications from people who applied for asylum last year, Anders Ygeman, the country’s interior minister, told Swedish media on Thursday, according to a report in the Guardian.
Pope Francis, at the end of his visit to the city of Verona, attends mass at the city's Bentegodi Stadium in the presence of tens of thousands of Catholic faithful. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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