Cyprus asylum seekers head for new lives in Italy thanks to pope

Six asylum seekers Pope Francis is helping relocate from Cyprus expressed gratitude and hope as they left to start their new lives in Italy on Thursday barely a week before Christmas.
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'I'm still alive,' says pope, 'though some wanted me dead'

Pope Francis has joked that some people in the Church hoped he would not survive his recent colon operation, and denounced vociferous conservative critics for doing "the work of the devil" by undermining the Roman Catholic Church.
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