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Patrick the bear is freed into the wild after a year in human careWhen he was found a year ago, Patrick weighed just three kilos and was weak. A year later, he’s a healthy young bear weighing 45 kilos that has learned to survive in nature.
Francis to visit Greece April 16 in flash show of solidarity with migrantsPope Francis will make a flash visit to the Greek island of Lesbos next week alongside Orthodox Christian Patriarch Bartholomew in a joint ecumenical sign of solidarity with refugees facing deportation to Turkey under a new European Union agreement, the Vatican has announced.Francis’ visit will be only the second by a pope to Greece, following John Paul II’s trip to Athens in 2001. That earlier trip was the first visit by a pontiff to the country, which is 98 percent Greek Orthodox, in more than 1,000 years.In his visit, John Paul met with then Greek Orthodox Primate Christodoulos and apologized for Catholics’ historic mistreatment and violence against the Orthodox. The two also broke a long-standing taboo by praying together at a spot said to be where the apostle St. Paul preached to Athenian Christians.Bartholomew is the symbolic leader of the various Orthodox churches, based in Istanbul. Francis previously visited the patriarch in Turkey in November 2014.