Pope Francis appointed many cardinals from the Global South and, for the first time, fewer than half of voting cardinals who will choose the new pope are European. How will this influence the vote?
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Ruth Sherlock is an International Correspondent with National Public Radio. She's based in Beirut and reports on Syria and other countries around the Middle East. She was previously the United States Editor for the Daily Telegraph, covering the 2016 US election. Before moving to the US in the spring of 2015, she was the Telegraph's Middle East correspondent.
