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ARMENIA: ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH HAS NEW LEADER
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The Armenian Apostolic Church, reputedly the oldest Christian religion in the world, has enthroned its new leader.
Garegin I, Catholicos of all Armenia, was enthroned in a ceremony held in the town of Echmiadzin, seat of...
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KOSOVO: MITROVICA: PROTESTERS INTERRUPT CHURCH SERVICE
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Serbian Orthodox worshippers today celebrated Good Friday ahead of Orthodox Easter on Sunday.
But the celebrations were interrupted by Albanian protesters.
A Serb church service was the target on Friday of a large crowd of...
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SYND 11-12-72 ANTI-SOVIET DEMONSTRATION OVER PERSECUTION OF CATHOLICS
Clergy of the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church leading a rally in New York's Hammarskjold Plaza to protest against the persecution of the Catholic church in the Soviet Union.
1. ws United Nationa building
2. mcu Hammarskjold Plaza...
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Serbia - Church condemns Milosevic government
Thousands of students, blowing whistles and banging pots and pans together, formed a noisy protest march through the streets of the Serbian capital, Belgrade on Thursday (2/1).
It was the second of what the students hoped would be daily...
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RUSSIA: PRESIDENT YELTSIN TURNS 68 (2)
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President Boris Yeltsin turned 68 on Monday, but the occasion drew little public attention as he remained tucked away at a sanitarium just outside Moscow, where he is recovering from a bleeding ulcer.
Yeltsin was visited...
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SYND 4 6 71 PATRIARCH ENTHRONED
The installation and enthronement ceremony of Patriarch Pimen I at the cathedral of the assumption in Moscow as he becomes the Patriarch of Moscow and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. The President of Cyprus Archbishop Makarios...
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Coptic Christians celebrate Orthodox Christmas
1. Exterior, Coptic Orthodox cathedral
2. Various, Christmas ceremony
3. Head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Shenouda III, during Midnight Mass
The Coptic Church, one of the largest Christian communities in the Middle East, marked...
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Serbian Orthodox mark Christmas Eve by burning oak branches
Serbian Orthodox Christians on Tuesday gathered at St. Sava Cathedral, the biggest Orthodox church in the Balkans, to celebrate Christmas Eve by burning dried oak branches, the Yule log symbol.
This young tree symbolises Christ and his...
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RUSSIA: SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT KIM DAE JUNG VISIT
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South Korean President Kim Dae Jung has arrived in Moscow for a three-day state visit.
Kim Dae Jung's visit includes meetings with Russian president Boris Yeltsin and other top state officials as well as the leaders of...
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Middle East - Rival Christian monks in fight at sacred site
Rival Christian monks in fist fight at sacred site
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Jerusalem - 9 Nov 2008
1. Various of amateur video showing pushing, punching, other scuffles between monks and police in church of Holy Sepulcher
2. Procession...
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SYND 3-4-73 BISHOPS SYNOD MEETING
Bishops from the holy synod of the Greek orthodox church meeting Archbishop Ieronymos I in a bid to persuade him to resign.
1. ws exterior building
2. vs of the bishops speaking and listening
3. ms bishops with press
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RUSSIA: TSAR NICHOLAS II CANONISED
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The Russian Orthodox Church canonised the Tsar Nicholas II and his family at a special service on Sunday.
The last Russian tsar and his family were shot dead by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
The Archbishops' Council, the Church's...
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RUSSIA: SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT KIM DAE-JUNG VISITS
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South Korean President Kim Dae-jung held talks with new Russian Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, in another sign of warming relations between Seoul and Moscow.
Until 1990 Russia had maintained close ties with communist...
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Residents of Jerusalem wake up to heavy snowfall
1. Various of Dome of the Rock under snow
2. Wide of Russian church
3. Close of Russian church
4. Medium of church
5. Wide of church
6. Various of Al-Aqsa mosque
7. Wide of the Old City
8. Medium of Dome of the Rock
9. Wide of the Old...
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Trial continues for Pussy Riot feminist punk band
Three feminist punk rockers from the band Pussy Riot arrived at a Russian court on Wednesday for the eighth day of their trial.
The band members may face years in prison for barging into Moscow's main cathedral to sing a song against...
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UPITN 16 5 73 SAINT ATHANASIUS CELEBRATIONS AT ST. MARKS CATHEDRAL, CAIRO
The Coptic orthodox church in Cairo, celebrates Saint Athanasius at St. Marks Cathedral
1. interior st. Marks Cathedral , priest enters
2. ms altar
3. nuns arrive
4. priests arrive and greeted
5. various pans along congregation
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Christmas morning in Red Square and around Moscow
1. Various, Christ Our Saviour Cathedral
2. Rain falling on ground
3. People walking in rain
4. Deserted main street, tilt up to Christmas tree
5. Various of people coming out of Red Square
6. Red square cathedral
8. Russian Father...
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Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter
1. Various shots of Greek orthodox procession walking down staircase outside Holy Sepulchre church
2. Wide shot of Greek orthodox procession to mid shot of clergyman throwing flower leaves
3. Various shots of Patriarch in procession
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Patriarch hold traditional Easter feet washing ceremony
1. Arrival of Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theofilos III at Church of the Holy Sepulchre compound
2. Pan from worshippers to the Patriarch Theofilos preparing for ceremony
3. Tilt down of Patriarch Theofilos washing feet of priests
4. Tilt...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: ARGENTINE PRESIDENT CARLOS MENEM VISIT
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The Argentine President Carlos Menem has begun his first visit to Russia, hoping to increase trade and co-operation between the two countries into the next century.
As well as meeting President Boris Yeltsin, Menem is due...
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Orthodox Christians begin Christmas Eve celebrations
With a traditional procession and a Boy Scout parade, Orthodox Christians began celebrating Christmas Eve in the West Bank town on Bethlehem on Tuesday.
Most Eastern churches celebrate Christmas Eve on January 6, in accordance with the...
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Italy - Boris Yeltsin meets Oscar Scalfaro
President Boris Yeltsin held talks with Italian President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro in Rome on Monday (9/2).
The trip -- designed to cement a "special understanding" between Moscow and Rome and restart talks between the Vatican and the...
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CAN619 COPTIC (?) AND CATHOLIC CHURCES IN KHARTOUM
Coptic (?) and Catholic churches in Khartoum, Sudan.
1. ms people walk past a Coptic church (?); tilt up to dome
2. ws people stand by the entrance gate with church behind
3. ms a suited man sits with a religious figure
4. ms women and...
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Palestinian leader arrives in Moscow for official visit
1. Wide shot of airport
2. Mid shot plane taxiing across runway
3. Wide shot guards and airplane
4. Palestinian and Russian flags
5. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas exiting plane
6. Cutaway photographer
7. Wide shot Abbas walking...