Green balloons reading Yes to life are held by pro-life movement activists during Pope Benedict XVI’s Angelus prayer in St Peter’s Square at the Vatican, yesterday. The Pontiff said he is praying that Egypt can find tranquility and peaceful coexistence. Pope Benedict said he is attentively following the “delicate situation in the dear Egyptian nation,’’ addressing thousands of pilgrims yesterday in St Peter’s.

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