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Yahoo! News: Religion News

Ancient sect hopes for boost from pope's visit (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2010 09:00 PM PDT

In this photo made May 9, 2010 an elderly Maronite woman attends Mass at Saint George's Cathedral in the Maronite Catholic village of Kormakitis in the remote northwestern tip of divided Cyprus. The Maronites who migrated from what is now Syria and Lebanon to Cyprus, hope Pope Benedict's trip to the island in early June will buttress their 6,000 strong community amid fears it is disappearing by assimilating with the larger Orthodox Christian Greek Cypriot population. (AP Photo/Philippos Christou)AP - In the coffee shop at this farming village on the northern Cyprus coast, the conversation jumps from one hardship to the next: a bad rainy season, a religion weakened by assimilation, and a division of the island that has lasted 36 years with no end in sight.

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