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  “As we prepare for Christmas, it is important that we find time for  self contemplation and carry out an honest assessment of our lives”,  said Pope Benedict XVI Sunday, in his reflections before the midday  Angelus prayer on this second Sunday of Advent.
 
 The Holy Father  also drew attention to a series of upcoming anniversaries this week and  in doing so to the plight of millions worldwide, without a country to  call their own: “In the coming days, in Geneva and other cities, we will  celebrate the 50th anniversary of the World Organization for Migration,  the 60th anniversary of the Convention on the Status of Refugees and  the 50 th anniversary of the Convention on the Reduction of  Statelessness. I entrust to the Lord all those who, often forcibly, must  leave their homeland, or who are stateless.  ...»
 
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