VATICAN CITY
Business Recorder
Sunday, 17 February 2013
Posted by Muhammad Iqbal
VATICAN CITY: Cardinal Kurt Koch, a close aide of Pope Benedict who will cast his vote for the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church, says there is no reason why the new pontiff cannot be African or Latin American.
Koch, head of the Vatican department that deals with Christian unity and relations with Jews, also said he had had no doubt that Pope Benedict would resign rather than rule for life, and said that future popes would be free to do the same.
“The challenges of the Church in the world are very different on different continents: in Africa, in Asia, in Latin America.
The question is ‘where will the challenges be greater, on which continent, should it be a pope for, above all, Latin America, for Africa ,” Koch told Reuters in an interview.
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