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Choose a new pope to the Vatican after white smoke billowed

Thick white smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican this evening proof to choose a new pope to the Vatican. And on the second day of the secret meeting held to elect a new pope to succeed Pope Benedict XVI, who resigned last month.

And saw thousands of people in St. Peter's Square white smoke, which means that 115 cardinals chose pope from among them, and before the new pope office as Pope of the Vatican.

The round of voting yesterday to choose the pope failed, and the escalation of the time black smoke evidence of that failure, and so continued Cardinals - behind the walls of the church dating back to the Middle Ages - their secret to elect the new pope to vote again to agree on the name of the new pope two-thirds majority.

When the cardinals agree on the choice Baba billowing white smoke from the chimney temporary placed above the roof of the church, and church bells of St. Peter.

This means burning black smoke billowing all ballots to erase any trace of the secret vote, which the cardinals can not talk about it even after a long period of the compound.
According to experts in the affairs of the Vatican, it is expected to be a short period of complex, a day to a maximum of four days in the absence of a surprise.

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