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		</div><p>Pope Francis has ushered in 2021 with a traditional Angelus blessing from the papal library, pushing through nerve pain that forced him to skip new year ceremonies in St Peter’s Basilica.</p>
<p>The pope appeared relaxed as he stood at a lectern in the Apostolic Palace wishing the faithful watching via video “a year of peace, a year of hope”.</p>
<p>He smiled into the camera as he repeated his customary sign-off, “don’t forget to pray for me”, and wishing everyone “a good lunch”.</p>
<p>The papal blessing was moved inside from the usual perch at a window overlooking St Peter’s Square to discourage crowds as Italy is living under tighter Covid-19 restrictions.</p>
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<p>The Vatican announced that the pope would not preside over a New Year’s Eve prayer service nor the New Year’s Day Mass in St Peter’s Basilica due to “painful sciatica”.</p>
<p>Francis has spoken openly about his sciatica in the past.</p>
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<p>It is a form of pain in the lower body caused by compression or irritation on nerve roots or on the sciatic nerve, which runs from the lower spine down the thigh.</p>
<p>At the conclusion of the Angelus, the pope called for peace in Yemen, where children are living “without education, without medicine, hungry”, and for the release of the Rev Moses Chikwe, a bishop in the Owerri archdiocese of Nigeria, who was kidnapped last Sunday by gunmen.</p>
<p>In his Angelus blessing, the pope said “the pandemic taught us how much it is necessary to take interest in other’s problems and to share their concerns”.</p>
<p>In a similar vein, in a homily prepared for delivery by the pope but instead read by his secretary of state, Francis wrote that there is need of a “vaccine for the heart. This vaccine is the cure. It will be a good year if we take care of others”.</p>
<p>He said that peace can happen if everyone, everywhere takes “by the hand those who need a comforting word, a tender gesture”, and “if we begin to be in peace with ourselves, and with those who are near us”.</p>
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