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Russia/Bosnia - Orthodox Christmas
While most of the Western world has already tossed out the
Christmas tree, Christmas in Russia is only just beginning.
A lag of thirteen days between the modern Augustian calendar and
the Julian calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church...
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Lawyers say the court deliberately exhausting the defendants, ambulance called
Three Russian feminist rockers charged with hooliganism for performing a "punk prayer" in Moscow's main cathedral against President Vladimir Putin were on Wednesday said to be weak and exhausted as they appeared in court for a third day...
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Sacred sycamore integral to plan to attract tourists
With a giant trunk and boughs towering 60 feet (18 metres) high, a gnarled sycamore near Jericho's main square has long been touted as the very tree that the hated tax collector Zacchaeus climbed to get a glimpse of Jesus, as recounted...
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Defence minister visits peacekeeping troops
Pristina
1. Wide shot plane taxiing
2. French Defence Minister Michelle Alliot-Marie leaving plane
3. Troops at airport
4. Alliot-Marie walking across tarmac and getting into car
5. Convoy leaving tarmac
6. Top NATO commander in Europe,...
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WRAP Christians in the Middle East mourn the pope
East Jerusalem
1. Priests carrying cross and turning into courtyard of Church of Holy Sepulchre
2. Longer shot of procession into church
Bethlehem, West Bank
3. Interior shot of priests conducting mass at service in Church of Nativity
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Thousands attend funeral of Patriarch Maxim, who led Bulgarian Orthodox Church
Sofia, Bulgaria
1. Wide of Orthodox heads, officials and believers paying their respects to Patriarch Maxim during funeral service at Alexander Nevsky cathedral
2. Close of portrait of the Bulgarian Patriarch Maxim and a cross with a...
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Bosnia/Croatia - Serbs Continue To Leave Sarajevo
13 US police officers on Thursday (14/3) arrived in Sarajevo to join the 400-strong UN police force. Bosnian Serbs on Thursday continued to flee Sarajevo for Srpska. Most of those departing were from the suburb of Grbavica, the last part...
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Orthodox Christians mark epiphany with mass; while swimmers brave icy waters
Orthodox Christian worshippers plunged into chilly waters across southern and eastern Europe on Tuesday to retrieve crucifixes cast by priests in an old ritual marking the feast of Epiphany.
In Istanbul, Turkey, Ecumenical Patriarch...
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Serbs cross bridge into Kosovan side amid heavy security
1. Various of Serbs getting on UN guarded bus
2. Soldiers with rifles in foreground, bus leaving in background
3. Various of Serbs getting off bus at cemetery under UN guard
4. Various of Serbs touring cemetery, protected by barbed...
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BULGARIA: HARSH WEATHER REPORTEDLY KILLS 6 MENTAL PATIENTS
Natural Sound
The unusually severe winter weather conditions around Europe continue to take their toll on those most vulnerable.
In Bulgaria, the cold spell reportedly killed six patients in mental institutions within the past week. ...
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SERBIA: BELGRADE: STUDENT PROTESTORS LIAISE WITH MILITARY
English/Nat
Serb students - who have been protesting against President Slobodan Milosevic for weeks - met the head of the Yugoslav army on Monday to ask for the military's support.
The army assured them they would not step in to break...
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Archbishop questions if Cyprus should stay in euro; preps for relief concert
1. Wide top shot of interior of Ayios Vasilios Greek Orthodox Church
2. Top shot of congregation
3. Greek flags hanging from ceiling of church with murals in background
4. Archbishop Chrysostomos II giving sermon
5. Cutaway of...
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Coptic Church moves towards picking new pope
November 2, 2012
1. Wide of the main Coptic Cathedral in Cairo
2. Mid of Coptic Cathedral
3. Close-up of crosses on top of main Coptic cathedral
4. Wide of a truck unloading equipment inside Cathedral compound for the ceremony on...
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Lipovans in Romania celebrate orthodox Easter with ancient traditions
1. Wide of people attending Easter religious service in the balcony of the Lipovan church of Carcaliu
2. Wide low angle of the church floor and icons and candles in the background
3. Close low angle of icons and candles, worshippers...
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ARMENIA: DEATH OF ARMENIAN CHURCH LEADER
Natural Sound
Five thousand people gathered on Thursday to mourn the death of the leader of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Catholicos Garegin I (the first) died of throat cancer on June 29, at the age of 66.
He led the Armenian...
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Service at the first gay church in Russia
15 September 2007
1. Various of Orthodox church service
2. Close up of altar
3. Various of attendees
4. Close up of priest holding holy book in hands
FILE - 27 May 2007, Moscow Gay Pride Rally
5. Man attacking homosexual man
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Thousands of Orthodox Christians take part in Easter Week''s Holy Fire ceremonies
1. Wide of Holy Fire procession led by Armenian cleric
2. Mid of procession
3. Pilgrims watching procession
4. Mid of cleric approaching Holy Sepulchre door, man knocking on door
5. Close of key
6. Mid of ladder being brought out from...
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Various arrivals for St Petersburg summit
1. View across Neva river
2. Statue of Peter the Great - the Bronze Horseman
3. Exterior of St Isaac's Cathedral
4. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife on river launch, moored near cathedral, with Japanese Prime Minister...
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Charities reach out to homeless as hundreds die in freezing weather
Moscow, Russia
1. Mid of food trays being handed from a van to homeless and poor
2. Mid of woman handing out food trays
3. Mid of people receiving food, woman thanking charity worker for the food
4. Close-up of homeless man eating...
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UKRAINE: REBIRTH OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
Russian/Nat
The fall of communism in the former Soviet Union has brought, among other things, a new lease of life to the region's religions.
The Ukraine has been one of the many former Soviet republics to benefit, but freedom of worship...
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Faithful celebrate Orthodox Easter
1. Exterior of Abbasiya Cathedral in Cairo
2. His Holiness Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria (leader of Coptic Orthodox Church) arriving in Cathedral
3. Women worshippers cheering for Pope Shenouda III
4. Various of pope conducting various...
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INGUSHETIA/CHECHNYA: ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHRISTMAS
Russian/Nat
As millions of Russian Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas, Russian troops and Chechen refugees are spending the holiday on the Chechnya-Ingushetia border.
Some Chechens have called for a holiday cease-fire, but Russian...
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Russia - Aum Cult Being Investigated In Russia
The lower house of the Russian parliament (State Duma) has called
on the powerful Russian security council to investigate the
activities of the Aum Shinri Kyo cult in Russia. The members of
the State Duma's Security Committee said...
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Russian church holds 1st service since beginning of recent violence
1. Wide exterior of Church of Archistrategos of God Mikhail
2. Various of the Sunday service in the church
3. Mid of religious painting
4. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Nina Ovsyannikova, ethnic Russian:
"So far we are not going to leave. We'll...