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Sunday, April 03, 2005 (Philippines)
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| Pope John Paull II, 84, died Saturday night (Sunday morning in Manila) in his Vatican apartment. (AP photo) |
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VATICAN CITY -- (Updated) Pope John Paul II, who helped topple communism in Europe and left a deeply conservative stamp on the church that he led for 26 years, died Saturday night (Sunday morning in RP) in his Vatican apartment, ending a long public struggle against debilitating illness. He was 84.
"We all feel like orphans this evening," Undersecretary of State Archbishop Leonardo Sandri told the crowd of 70,000 that gathered in St. Peter's Square below the pope's still-lighted apartment windows.
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