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Credit: Reuters/Osservatore Romano By Catherine Hornby ROME | Fri Apr 22, 2011 10:25am EDT ROME (Reuters) - Pope Benedict took questions from a child in Japan, a Muslim woman in Ivory Coast and a mother caring for a son in a permanent coma in his first televised dialogue with the public, broadcast on Good Friday. The German-born pontiff, like his Polish predecessor John Paul, has allowed rare televised interviews with journalists but his direct contact with the general public marked a new step for the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. While the interaction was heavily controlled by Vatican officials, the broadcast represented an attempt to freshen the image of the Church by the pope, who Thursday lamented the decline of Christian faith in the western world. The program, called "In His Image," was broadcast on Italian television in mid-afternoon at around the time Christ is traditionally believed to have died on Good Friday and contained seven questions from selected participants around the world. Following roughly the format of an Italian TV chat show, with a moderator and a panel of experts before a studio audience, the program included pre-recorded responses from the pope speaking via video link to questioners around the world. Sitting at his desk, the 84 year-old told the mother of a man who has been in a longterm coma that her son's soul was still in his body and that he could feel the presence of love. "The situation, perhaps, is like that of a guitar whose strings have been broken and therefore can no longer play," the pope told the Italian mother, who spoke beside her son. SUFFERING To a seven year-old girl in Japan asking him to explain the suffering in her country after the disastrous March 11 earthquake and tsunami which killed some 28,000 people, he pointed to Jesus and said suffering was not in vain. "We do not have the answers but we know that Jesus suffered as you do," the pope said. Responding to a request for advice from a Muslim woman in Ivory Coast, which is emerging from a conflict in which at least 1,500 people died and a million were forced to flee, the pope said people should look to Christ as an example of peace. "Violence never comes from God, never helps bring anything good, but is a destructive means and not the path to escape difficulties," he said. He also told youth in Iraq that the Church was encouraging dialogue between religions. Later Friday, the pope will preside over the traditional Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) procession around Rome's Colosseum, commemorating Christ's crucifixion and death at a site associated with early Christian martyrs. Expected to be attended by tens of thousands of people, the solemn, night-time ceremony is one of the main services before Easter, the climax of the Christian year. In this year's ceremony, the pope will listen to meditations composed by Mother Maria Rita Piccione, an Augustinian nun who is one of few women to have been given the task for the 14 "stations of the cross." Saturday, Benedict will say an Easter Eve mass and on Sunday will deliver an "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) blessing and message. (Editing by Maria Golovnina) World Lifestyle Japan Natural Disasters Ivory Coast Tweet this Share this Link this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. 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