Published Feb 24, 2017 at 8:03 AM EST Updated Mar 01, 2017 at 8:16 AM EST A woman prays by the altar as internally displaced South Sudanese people from the Dinka ethnic group attend mass in a church in Minkaman, South Sudan, March 2, 2014. Pope Francis "hopes" to visit the... More JM LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Pope Francis hopes to visit South Sudan, where civil war has raged for more than two years and part
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