Vatican Looking for a Gesture to Help Avert War

VATICAN CITY, JAN. 30, 2003 (Zenit.org).- The Vatican might make a «concrete gesture» to avoid a military intervention in Iraq, a top official says.

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Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, Vatican secretary for relations with states, did not exclude the possibility of sending a peace emissary to Baghdad on behalf of the Pope.

«For the time being, there is nothing concrete,» the archbishop told the press today. «We are just thinking about it. It is a possibility, not yet a plan.»

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