FRANCE24: Popemobile transformed into Gaza mobile children's clinic

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The popemobile used by the late pope Francis on his 2014 visit to Bethlehem re-emerged on Tuesday as a mobile children's clinic to be deployed in Gaza.

Swedish Cardinal Anders Arborelius blessed the converted popemobile which is intended to become a children's clinic in Gaza.

The vehicle is still unmistakeable as a popemobile: pristine white inside and out, and with the familiar raised canopy.

But instead of transporting the leader of the world's 1.4 billion Roman Catholics, the re-branded "Vehicle of Hope" is now set to serve in the war-battered Gaza Strip, in accordance with the late pope's wishes. READ MORE HERE.

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