> Europe - Vatican - Christianity - General
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> "Mikhail Gorbachev admits he is a Christian"
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> http://www.wwrn.org/article.php?idd=28051&con=56&sec=56
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> By Malcolm Moore ("Telegraph", March 19. 2008)
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> Rome, Italy - Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Communist leader of the Soviet
> Union, has acknowledged his Christian faith for the first time, paying a
> surprise visit to pray at the tomb of St Francis of Assisi.
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> Accompanied by his daughter Irina, Mr Gorbachev spent half an hour on his
> knees in silent prayer at the tomb.
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> His arrival in Assisi was described as "spiritual perestroika" by La Stampa,
> the Italian newspaper.
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> "St Francis is, for me, the alter Christus, the other Christ," said Mr ...