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Despite Venezuelan bishops’ objection, Pope sends envoy to Maduro inauguration

January 14, 2019

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CWN Editor's Note: Pope Francis sent a personal representative to the inauguration ceremony as Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro began a new term, although the Catholic bishops of Venezuela had said the the new presidential term had “no legitimacy.” Maduro offered a special word of thanks to the papal representative for attending the ceremony, which many Western diplomats boycotted.

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