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"Da Vinci Code" released
1. Cinema Barberini in Rome's city centre
2. Worker setting up a banner reading: "Il Codice da Vinci" (The Da Vinci Code)
3. Various of old man who has tied himself with peace flags protesting against the movie and urging people not to...
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Pope begs forgiveness from victims of clergy sex abuse; Vatican spokesman
Pope Francis begged forgiveness on Monday from the victims of clergy sex abuse as he held his first meeting with several abuse survivors.
The Vatican quoted Francis as expressing personal "sorrow" in his homily at a private Mass with six...
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Gun used in assassination attempt on display at John Paul II museum
A new museum telling the life story of Polish-born Pope John Paul II will open this week, just weeks before he is made a saint.
The multimedia museum will open on Wednesday in the southern city of Wadowice, at the house where the pope...
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CHINA: US RELIGIOUS LEADERS ARRIVE TO PROMOTE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
English/Nat
Three American religious leaders are arriving in China on Monday for an 18 day trip to promote the free practice of religion in the officially atheist country.
They aren't visiting the country to criticise, but instead to...
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Police exhume body of criminal buried in 1990 in search for missing girl
1. Zoom-out from white police van to wide of entrance to courtyard next to Sant'Apollinare basilica, police van entering it
2. Photographers around van
3. Arrival of police van containing geologists and speleologists (cave experts)
4....
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2nd defendant in Vatican leaks case drops appeal
1. Wide of Saint Peter's square
2. Close-up of sign reading "Holy See Press Office"
3. Wide of news conference inside the Press Office
4. Mid of journalist
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman:
"Today the...
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Pope says Europe is a Christian continent
AP Television
1. Wide of exteriors of St. Peter's Square during Pope's Saturday audience
2. Tilts down St. Peter's Basilica
3. Close up Basilica
Vatican TV
4. Pope walking in and greeting bishops, Pope sits down
5. Pope sitting down
6....
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Two West Bank churches hit by firebombs over Pope's comments
1. Various exteriors of Anglican church
2. Black scorch marks on wall of church
3. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Abuna Yusof, Father Yousef Saada, Roman Catholic priest:
"As a Christian Palestinian I reject these comment made by the pope. It does...
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Press release on Cardinal Law's resignation as Archbishop of Boston
1. Wide shot St Peter's Square
2. Mid shot St Peters' dome
3. Various newspaper headlines
4. Setup shot Gerald O'Connell, Vatican Correspondent for various Catholic US Media, carrying press release
5. Mid shot journalists
6. Gerald...
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CHILE: MOVES TO CHANGE THE DIVORCE LAW
Spanish/Nat
Catholic Ireland has changed the law but Chile remains a stronghold of theological teaching - one of the last countries in the world where divorce is illegal.
However the country is anything but a bastion of the family - an...
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Pope holds candid news conference during a plane journey back to the Vatican
1. Pope Francis arriving to speak to journalists at back of plane AUDIO: Applause
2. Cutaway of media
3. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Pope Francis:
"Things were more spontaneous with less security. I was able to stay with the people, hug and...
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Bishop denies sexual harrasment allegations
June 9, 2003 - Manila, Philippines
1. Various of newspaper headlines on allegations against Bishop Teodoro Bacani
APTN File - December 1994
2. Wide shot of Bishop Bacani celebrating mass
June 9, 2003 - Manila, Philippines
3. SOUNDBITE:...
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Cuba - Religion of Santeria practised
According to the Cuban Council of Churches, 87 percent of the Cuban population is religious with nearly half the population Catholic. And the numbers are growing. But most Cubans are believed to practice another type of religion. It is...
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ITALY: TAYLORS PREPARING CARDINALS OUTFITS (V)
Natural Sound
VOICED BY: Vera Frankl
0002 Officials in Vatican city are preparing for a great event on Wednesday.
0008 Forty four new cardinals will receive their caps and rings from Pope John Paul the Second.
0014 The event means...
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Angelus, small demo in support Pope's position on condom use
1. Wide shot St. Peter's Basilica
2. Mid shot St. Peter's dome
3. African Catholics singing and marching towards St.Peter's basilica
4. Wide African Catholics marching and holding banner reading: (Italian) "welcome back holy father"
5....
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Officials say JPII not involved in scandal surrounding Legion order
The Polish priest who spearheaded the case to make Pope John Paul II a saint on Tuesday said there was no documentation that the late pontiff had any "personal involvement" in the scandal surrounding the Legion of Christ religious...
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Memorial to Sept 11 attacks at US embassy in Rome.
1. Exterior, U-S embassy, Rome
2. Close up, U-S flag
3. Various, Carabinieri (Italian soldiers) and U-S Cadets
4. Close up, New York Fireman Department photo
5. Mid shot, U-S Cadets
6. Wide shot, Italian and U-S authorities
7. SOUNDBITE...
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Roman Catholice devotees reenact death of Jesus Christ
1. People walking in single file flagellating themselves
2. Mid shot of backs of flagellators, covered in blood
3. Tilt down from young boy to flagellator prostrate on the ground
4. Men flagellating their backs
5. Procession past...
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Tribunal says Vatican hindering hunt for alleged war criminal
1. Exterior of the building housing the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
2. Close up of UN flag
3. Wide of spokespersons entering press conference
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Florence Hartmann, spokeswoman...
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Hundreds of foreign tourists travel to Istanbul to see pope
1. Wide of Bosphorus
2. Close-up of Turkish and European Union flags
3. Police lined up in street
4. Pan from crowd to line of police blocking people from where the pope is
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jean Tigasson, Tourist:
"The pope is...
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Vatican accused of meddling in Italian affairs as celebrates 80th annivisary
Vatican - February 11, 2009
1. Wide of columns in St.Peter's Square
2. Cupola on St. Peter's Basilica
3. Wide of St. Peter's Square
Vatican - February 10, 2009
3. Exhibit on the Lateran Pact, table and chairs where documents were...
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VENEZUELA: FORMER ARGENTINIAN BISHOP ARRIVES ON CRUSADE
Spanish/Nat
A former Argentinian bishop, Jeronimo Podesta, and his wife, Clelia Luro, arrived in Venezuela this week as part of a crusade to implement changes in the Catholic church.
Jeronimo Podesta was made to resign as a bishop 20...
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Evening Good Friday service at coliseum.
1. Exterior of Colosseum
2. Zoom out Poe satanding
3. Cross made out of cancles
4. Wide shot crowd at Colosseum
5. Pope John PAUL II and cardinals taking their marks for the walk
6. Midshot two nones
7. Pope standing and praying with...
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WRAP Preps, security as Pontiff celebrates Catholic education; speech, reax
1. Exterior of Wimbledon Apostolic Nunciature, where Pope Benedict XVI is staying during London leg of trip
2. Close of Vatican flag
3. Various of faithful gathered outside Wimbledon Apostolic Nunciature
4. Pope's motorcade leaving,...