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Pope Declines Meeting

December 12, 2014;

Pope Francis has decided not to meet HH the Dalai Lama during his visit to Rome for the Nobel Peace Laureates Summit. His Holiness had requested a meeting but the Vatican has declined, citing the “delicate situation” with China, and saying that although the Pope held him “in very high regard”, the request had been declined “for obvious reasons”.

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