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BRAZIL: POPE HOPES TO PERSUADE PEOPLE TO RETURN TO CATHOLIC FAITH
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Despite frail health Pope John Paul was determined to make a pastoral visit to Brazil, a predominantly Roman catholic country.
In recent years thousands have abandoned the Catholic church in favour of the more liberal...
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Release of one of two US Baptists in adoption case
1. Various of US baptist missionary Charisa Coulter leaving jail
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Luis Ricardo Chachoute, Haitian Lawyer representing Charisa Coulter:
"I''m glad to let you know that there is no prosecution witnesses to...
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INDONESIA: LOMBOK: UNEASY CALM
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An uneasy calm has settled over the riot-torn tourist island of Lombok in east Indonesia.
Police have warned they will shoot troublemakers on sight and at the same time, Muslim clerics have appealed to their followers to stop...
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Rapid religious transformation reverberates through country's tight presidential race
One of the fastest religious transformations any nation has undergone in recent decades has added even more twists to Brazil's tight presidential race.
The swelling ranks of Brazil's socially conservative Pentecostal population now...
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HEADLINE: Funerals and Burials for Amish Shooting Victims
CAPTION: A procession of buggies and carriages carried mourners to a hilltop cemetery in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where an Amish community buried several school girls...
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Keith Melton, a member of the First Baptist Church of Maryville, Illinois talks about witnessing the fatal shooting of his pastor Fred Winters. Melton also helped tackle the gunman and received a minor knife wound in the scuffle.
HEADLINE: First Person: Tackling the Ill. church shooter
CAPTION: Keith Melton, a member of the First Baptist Church of Maryville, Illinois talks about witnessing the fatal shooting of his pastor Fred Winters. Melton also helped tackle...
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Aftermath of attack on school, witnesses
1. Boys from Sugoi-Munsingen Children's Home and school taking refuge in the Presbyterian church
2. Boy who escaped from the attack
3. Wide, school children with German volunteer Birgit Zimmermann
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) John Kamau,...
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Mourners at church where Whitney Houston got her start and shrine in Los Angeles
Congregants at the Newark, New Jersey church where Whitney Houston got her start were mourning her death, Sunday (12 February 2012.)
Authorities say the 48-year-old Houston died Saturday at a Beverly Hills, California hotel. No cause of...
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Elam Zook grew up Amish but chose to leave the church. Hear him tell his story.
HEADLINE: First Person: Leaving the Amish Church
CAPTION: Elam Zook grew up Amish but chose to leave the church. Hear him tell his story. (Oct 4)
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CUBA: HAVANA: EVANGELICAL & PENTECOSTAL RELIGIONS BOOMING
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Evangelical and Pentecostal religions are booming in Cuba.
The Assembly of God group has seen the number of followers rise from 1-thousand to 50-thousand in the last decade.
And religious leaders are hoping the Pope's visit...
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Hearse carrying Whitney Houston arrives at church for funeral
1. Aerials of Whitney Houston's hearse under heavy police escort
2. Aerial of balloons New Hope Baptist Church
3. Aerial of balloons outside New Hope Baptist Church
4. Aerial of Houston's hearse approaching
5. Wide aerial of New Hope...
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Zimbabwe opposition wants expatriates to be allowed to vote
1. Wide of Johannesburg skyline
2. Wide of Zimbabwean refugees who live at the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg
3. Zoom out showing a packed corridor with Zimbabwean refugees at the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg
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South Africans pray for Nelson Mandela in different churches throughout the country
South Africa's day of prayer on Sunday in memory of Nelson Mandela highlighted the role of the church in the country's journey from white domination to black majority rule.
South Africans of all races flocked to houses of worship to...
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Christmas celebrations in Washington DC and New York
New York
1. Jeep decked in Christmas decorations driving past, man dressed as Santa Claus waves from jeep, tilt up to Saint Patrick's Cathedral
2. Christmas decoration on cathedral wall
3. People on steps of cathedral
4. Various of mass...
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Hearing in case of 10 US missionaries charged with kidnapping children
1. Police van carrying arrested US Baptists arriving at court
2. Various of group inside car
3. Various of group leader Laura Silsby (red hair) being escorted by police into court
4. Various of group member Charisa Coulter (dark hair,...
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Protesting priest and parishioners refuse to leave their church
1. Wide of Cuban National Police on closed street near church
2. Mid of police car leaving
3. Wide of police officer directing traffic away from scene
4. Zoom in to man on street reading official statement in newspaper
5. SOUNDBITE...
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The judge investigating 10 American Baptists who tried to take 33 children out of earthquake-ravaged Haiti says he will recommend their provisional release while the investigation continues.
HEADLINE: Haitian Judge: Release Americans
CAPTION: The judge investigating 10 American Baptists who tried to take 33 children out of earthquake-ravaged Haiti says he will recommend their provisional release while the investigation...
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Service held to remember climbers who perished in avalanche
A memorial service was held on Saturday for nine climbers who perished in a massive avalanche in the French Alps.
Three Britons, three Germans, two Spaniards and a Swiss climber were killed and 14 people were injured in the avalanche on...
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Warning: Contains graphic language and video. Sixty-eight years after four people were lynched near Monroe, Georgia, the last mass lynching in the United States was commemorated and reenacted on Saturday. The lynching remains unsolved. (July 26)
It was a crime that stunned the South.
The killing of four people, all black, near Monroe, Georgia.
Sixty-eight years later, the 1946 lynching at the Moore's Ford Bridge is still unsolved. It's the last unsolved mass lynching in...
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Pope leaves Rome for visit to his native Germany; final preps in Berlin
Rome, Italy
1. Wide of car carrying Pope Benedict XVI, arriving at Ciampino airport in Rome
2. Mid of cardinals speaking, security in background
3. Benedict greeting people
4. Cutaway of Italian and Vatican flags next to aircraft
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As the Republican presidential hopefuls vie for the attention of the evangelical vote across the South, Georgians still seem split on which candidate best represents Christian values and can boost the economy.
HEADLINE Voter voices: Evangelicals' influence in Georgia
CAPTION: As the Republican presidential hopefuls vie for the attention of the evangelical vote across the South, Georgians still seem split on which candidate best represents...
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Feminists and evangelicals protest upcoming Papal visit
Mexico City
1. Wide of demonstrators holding banners while chanting
2. Close of painted banner with depictions of Catholic religious figures
3. Mid of demonstrators holding banners chanting UPSOUND (Spanish) "Take your rosaries out of...
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ZIMBABWE: FORMER PRESIDENT CAANAN BANANA GOES ON TRIAL
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Zimbabwe's former President, Caanan Banana goes on trial on Monday - after being indicted on 11 criminal charges of sodomy, attempted sodomy and indecent assault.
Up to 37 witnesses are likely to be called in the trial of...
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Ga. Baptist Church 'Disappointed' in Veto
Mike Griffin, a spokesman for the Georgia Baptist Mission Board spoke with The Associated Press Monday about his organization's disappointment following Gov. Nathan Deal's veto of House Bill 757, often referred to as religious freedom...