Pope Francis grants women voting rights at bishops' meetings.
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Pope Francis has announced that women will be allowed to vote at an influential global meeting of bishops for the first time. The new rules will give five religious sisters voting rights at the synod, which is a papal advisory body. Men will still cast the majority of the votes at the gathering, but the reforms are seen as a significant shift for the male-dominated Roman Catholic Church. The Pope has also extended voting rights to 70 hand-picked non-clerical members of the religious community, moving the synod away from being a meeting solely of the Church hierarchy.
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