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...... And to the children on a New Years day, he wrote: Dear children, dear young peopleat the beginning of a new year we cannot forget all those of your own age who are suffering hunger or violence, and those who are victims of hideous forms of exploitation. At another time John Paul II wrote, Dear young people, you are humanitys hope
Indeed John Paul II was a bright beacon of hope for humanity, and a strong man he was. He made over 170 visits to 115 countries in the twenty years between 1979 and 1999, and in those visits he reached out to people of all ethnicities and all political beliefs, including Fidel Castro of Cuba
In May 1981, John Paul II was shot and critically wounded in St. Peters Square by a Turkish gunman named Mehmet Ali Agca. By the time John Paul II was rushed to the hospital he had lost about three-quarters of his bodys blood and was unconscious. The bullets that struck him narrowly missed his mesenteric artery and his abdominal aorta. The Pope required five hours of surgery to stop the bleeding. He survived thanks to the Grace of God and in a gesture

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