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      VATICAN (CWNews.com) -- Pope John Paul II has issued an urgent new appeal for a peaceful solution to the conflict in Kosovo.

      Speaking from the balcony of the papal apartments on Sunday, March 21, after he had led the faithful in St. Peter's Square in reciting the Angelus, the Pope ask for special prayers that leaders in the region "will have the courage to make initiatives inspired by the true common good."

      The Holy Father added that the people of the Kosovo region have already traveled "down a long 'way of the cross,' and they are waiting for solutions respectful of history and of what is right."