BOGOTA: Pope Francis held an open-air mass Thursday (Friday in Manila) for hundreds of thousands of worshippers in Colombia, urging forgiveness as they seek a lasting end to half a century of civil war.

Cheering crowds greeted the 80-year-old Argentine pontiff as he urged them to reject “vengeance”—though some warned forgiveness was hard after so much violence.

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