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Zimbabwean children are pictured in a file photo carrying vegetables as they walk past a house in Harare. A Vatican diplomat said deprivation and poverty among the laity could obstruct Pope Francis' vision of synodality in southern Africa, where challenges are widespread. (CNS photo/Philimon Bulawayo, Reuters)