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WelCom February 2022 Pope Francis has expressed his spiritual closeness to the people of Tonga, following the massive eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano that unleashed a destructive tsunami last month. “My thoughts go out to the peoples of the Tonga Islands who in recent days were affected by the eruption of an underwater
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