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Pope appears to back native tribes in Dakota Pipeline conflict
Pope Francis appeared on Wednesday to back Native Americans seeking to halt part of the Dakota Access Pipeline, saying indigenous cultures have a right to defend "their ancestral relationship to the earth". The Latin American pope, who has often strongly defended indigenous rights since his election in 2013, made his comments on protection of native lands to representative of tribes attending the Indigenous Peoples Forum in Rome.
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This would be useful if the Pope had any relevance/power, but what is the Vatican going to do? "Condemn" the actions? The Vatican is just about as relevant as the UN, or even less.