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Pope John Paul II waves as he leaves railway station near Assisi, central Italy, Thursday. About 200 Imams, monks, rabbis and religious leaders from around the world joined the pontiff Thursday in Assisi to pray for peace in a ceremony designed to proclaim that religion must never be used to justify violence.

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