Pope celebrates Mass in thunderstorm, calls for peace

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• Thousands brave thunder, wind-whipped rain for Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square
  
• Pope Benedict XVI calls for peace in Iraq, the Holy Land and Tibet
  
• Had baptized Magdi Allam, a prominent journalist and commentator in Italy
  
• Allam has received death threats for his denunciations of Islamic fanaticism
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