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Pope Francis approved ransom payment for nun kidnapped by Mali militants

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Pope Francis gestures after arriving at the airport in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on November 30, 2017. [Prakash Singh, AFP Photo]

A second high-ranking Holy See official told a Vatican court on Friday that Pope Francis had authorized spending hundreds of thousands of euros in ransom payments to try to free a nun who was kidnapped by al-Qaida-linked militants in Mali.

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