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heart that has been forgiven, we cannot be men and women of peace or builders of peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turning to concrete \u201cfaces\u201d of contemporary pain, Leo said that in becoming man, Jesus \u201ctook upon himself our fragility, identifying with each one of us: with those who have nothing left and have lost everything, like the inhabitants of Gaza; with those who are prey to hunger and poverty, like the Yemeni people; with those who are fleeing their homeland to seek a future elsewhere, like the many refugees and migrants who cross the Mediterranean or traverse the American continent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also named those who have lost jobs, underpaid workers who are exploited, and prisoners \u201cwho often live in inhumane conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leo offered \u201ca warm and fatherly greeting\u201d to Christians, \u201cespecially those living in the Middle East,\u201d recalling his recent trip to Turkey and Lebanon. \u201cI listened to them as they expressed their fears and 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