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Article: Dalai Lama, Indian Prime Minister lead thousands of Indians in mourning Pope's death
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- April 3, 2005
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AP Worldstream
04-03-2005
Dateline: NEW DELHI
In churches across India, thousands of people gathered in prayer Sunday to mourn the death of Pope John Paul II, while religious and political leaders, including the Dalai Lama, expressed grief and paid homage to the pontiff.
"Pope John Paul II was a man I held in high regard. His experience in Poland, then a communist country, and my own difficulties with communists, gave us a common ground," Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, said in a condolence message.
The Dalai Lama fled Tibet when Chinese communist troops invaded in 1950. Beijing has since branded the spiritual leader _ who has established a government-in-exile in the north Indian ...