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Restoration work launched at Jesus' tomb
Christian officials have launched historic restoration work at the Tomb of Jesus inside the Church of Holy Sepulchre, the site where tradition holds Jesus was crucified, buried and resurrectedClerics from the three denominations that...
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Sanders' speech at Vatican conference
Bernie Sanders issued a global call to action at the Vatican on Friday calling for "a return to fairness" in business and political spheres.The Democratic senator from Vermont cited Pope Francis and St. John Paul II repeatedly during his...
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Catholic Church damaged in suspected arson
A Catholic church near the Sea of Galilee frequented by religious pilgrims and tourists was heavily damaged by fire on Thursday in a possible attack by Jewish extremists.The fire broke out at the Church of the Multiplication in the...
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Roman Catholic bishops in Italy are urging the faithful to go on a high-tech fast for Lent, switching off modern appliances that let people surf the Web or send text messages.
HEADLINE: Catholics told to silence hi-tech toys for Lent
CAPTION: Roman Catholic bishops in Italy are urging the faithful to go on a high-tech fast for Lent, switching off modern appliances that let people surf the Web or send text...
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No more organs from the executed says China
China is stepping up its efforts to convince the international medical community that it has stopped using executed prisoners as organ donors.Beijing has sent a high-level delegation to a Vatican conference on organ trafficking amid...
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Trump: Clinton Team Attacked Catholics in Emails
Donald Trump railed against Hillary Clinton during a rally in Florida on Wednesday, saying newly released emails show "members of the Clinton team viciously attacking Catholics and Evangelicals." The April 2011 email exchange details a...
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Melania at children's hospital, reax to Ivanka visit
US First lady Melania Trump visited the Vatican's children's hospital, on Wednesday.She went to the Bambino Gesu (Baby Jesus) paediatric hospital after she and her husband, President Donald Trump, met with Pope Francis.The first lady...
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Pope heckled at Catholic university in Chile
Pope Francis visited the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile as his last formal event for Wednesday.
The day began with Francis taking the Chilean state and the country's largest indigenous group to task over their...
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MN Deacon Candidate Accuses Bishop of Blackmail
A Minnesota man who hopes to become a deacon in the Catholic Church is accusing his bishop of blackmailing him into keeping quiet about being abused by a beloved priest decades earlier.Ronald Vasek says Bishop Michael Hoeppner (HEP'-ner)...
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Pope defrocks Chilean priest at centre of global sex abuse scandal
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Pope praises Romanian progress on arrival in Bucharest
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Catholicism's influence on fashion explored
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Celebrities have turned out in Catholic inspired fashion for the annual Met Gala as an exhibition called "Heavenly Bodies" opens at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The exhibition traces the...
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NY Archdiocese Unveils Compensation Program
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York announced a compensation program Thursday for victims of sex abuse by priests who are willing to forego lawsuits in exchange for an award to be determined by an independent mediator.
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Pope removes secrecy from clergy sex abuse cases
Pope Francis has abolished the 'pontifical secret' used in clergy sexual abuse cases, after mounting criticism that the confidentiality measure has been used to protect paedophiles, silence victims and deflect police enquiries.
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COLOMBIA: RUMOURS DISMISSED OF IMMINENT ARRIVAL OF THE ANTICHRIST
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Catholic parents in Colombia are flooding the country's churches to baptise their children amid rumours of the imminent arrival of the Antichrist.
Believers claim the Antichrist will be born on Thursday and those who have...
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New cardinals greet worshipers after Pope elevates six
1. Tilt down interior of Apostolic Palace
2. Cardinal Michael Harvey from United States receiving a painting as a gift
3. Cardinal Harvey shaking hands and pilgrims kissing his gold ring
4. Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan from...
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Pontiff visits amid anger over abuse claims, mass, reax
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1. Wide of crowd gathered in Granaries Square
2. Various of Pope Benedict XVI arriving in popemobile, greets crowd
3. Wide of popemobile and crowd
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Alexander Powell, Malta resident:
"He said that we...
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EL SALVADOR: GUARDSMAN CONVICTED OF MURDERING NUNS SPEAKS
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One of the national guardsmen convicted of raping and killing three Roman Catholic nuns and a lay worker in El Salvador in 1980 claims that he has been unfairly treated.
Carlos Joaquin Contreras Palacios, who is serving a...
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WRAP Prayers, masses for the Pope
1. Wide shot exterior front of Buenos Aires Cathedral
2. Wide shot people sitting inside church listening to Vicar at daily mass
3. Close up of woman praying at mass
4. Medium shot of catholics stand up at mass
5. Close up of woman's...
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A gay vice principal who was forced out of his job at Eastside Catholic School filed a lawsuit against the school and church on Friday. (March 7)
A gay vice principal who was forced out of his job at Eastside Catholic School filed a discrimination and wrongful termination lawsuit against the school and church on Friday. Lawyers for the church and school planned to respond...
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SOUTH AFRICA: POPE JOHN PAUL II VISIT
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Catholics in South Africa will long remember the historic visit by Pope John Paul II.
For a group of nuns and the orphans they care for the visit will be remembered in their garden, where the piece of dirt the pope kissed on...
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Headlines, street reactions to Pope's quote on Islam
1. Baghdad street scene
2. Various of people standing at newspaper stand
3. Various of Iraqi newspapers
4. Close up of headline in al Sabah newspaper reading "Wide criticism of the pope's remarks on Islam"
5. Man reading a newspaper...
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Pope tours areas affected by earthquake, comments
Pope Benedict XVI visited the earthquake-ravaged area of central Italy on Tuesday to comfort survivors and give them hope to rebuild, visiting tent camps and a dormitory whose collapse epitomised the shoddy construction blamed for many...
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POLAND: SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT LIKELY TO GAIN FROM ELECTION RESULT
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Poles voted on Sunday in parliamentary elections that were likely to restore a reunified Solidarity movement's voice in government, at the expense of the governing leftists.
The prime minister acknowledged the new...