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Paul Cartwright, a 39-year-old British tourist from Greater Manchester, has been missing in Benidorm since Sunday after failing to board his flight home. His family is flying to Spain to cooperate with local authorities in the search, expressing significant concern for his wellbeing.

Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, is facing increasingly strong opposition inside the Vatican. The conservative clan of the Roman Curia – the powerful governing body of the Holy See – accuses him of a laxist vision of Catholic doctrine, particularly regarding the status of homosexual couples and divorced people in the Church. Our Rome correspondent Natalia Mendoza reports from the Vatican’s corridors of power on this growing conflict between tradition and modernity.

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