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Pope to Israelis: 'Tear down this wall!'

John L. Allen Jr.  |  May. 13, 2009 NCR Today

On his lone day in the Palestinian Territories, Pope Benedict delivered the papal equivalent of Ronald Reagan’s famous 1987 “tear down this wall!” speech in Berlin. Standing in a Palestinian refugee camp located in the shadow of Israel’s towering security wall, Benedict forcefully criticized such barriers between peoples. Read the story.

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