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Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., the Westboro Baptist Church founder, is in hospice care according to family and church members.

Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the AK-47 rifle who died last month at the age of 94, wrote a letter in 2012 to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church expressing “spiritual pain” over the deaths caused by the ubiquitous weapon.

Around the world today, the powerful “feed upon the powerless” and too many people are treated as “consumer goods to be used and then discarded,” Pope Francis writes in his first major paper since becoming leader of the Roman Catholic church last May.