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Vatican: stoning in Iran adultery case ‘brutal’ (AP)

September 5th, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI, flanked by his secretary Georg Gaenswein, right, blesses faithful during the Angelus prayer at his summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, in the outskirts of Rome, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)AP - The Vatican raised the possibility Sunday of using behind-the-scenes diplomacy to try to save the life of an Iranian widow sentenced to be stoned for adultery.


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