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World Service,04 Dec 1997,27 mins

The Vatican's Secret History

Focus on Faith

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Nazi gold conference puts pressure on the Vatican to publish its wartime record. The reluctance of the church has been criticised by Shimon Samuels from the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, which hunts down Nazi war criminals. Also on the programme, why Muslim children in East Africa excel at primary school - and putting the fear back into the Christmas nativity story.

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