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MEXICO: EASTER PASSION EVENT
Spanish/Nat
It is Good Friday and Mexico, a country 99 percent Catholic, commemorates Jesus Christ's crucifixion with unabandoned passion.
There are Easter events in virtually every city and town in the country.
But none can be compared...
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USA: ST. LOUIS: POPE JOHN PAUL II VISIT
English/Nat
Pope John Paul says the U-S has a heightened responsibility to be an example for the world of a genuinely free, democratic and humane society.
He spoke at an evening prayer service, his last big event before he left the...
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FRANCE: PARIS: PRIEST TALKS ABOUT SHOCK OF SEEING DIANA'S BODY
French/Nat
A Roman Catholic priest summoned to Princess Diana's bedside in a Paris hospital spoke on Thursday of his shock at seeing her body.
Father Yves Clochard-Bossuet spent four hours praying for the Princess after she had...
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Preparations for the pope's visit to Lebanon
Preparations for the historical visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Lebanon are almost complete.
Posters of the pope and Vatican and Lebanese flags decorate the highways in Lebanon as a welcoming sign.
The pope is due to arrive on Friday for a...
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Vatican denounces EU court ruling on crucifixes in schools
1. Wide shot exterior of Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican
2. Close of statue of Jesus in St Peter's Square
3. Various of Pope Benedict XVI arriving in St Peter's square in pope-mobile
4. Tilt up from St Peter's dome to cross
5. Set...
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Activists march to through Rome to call for abolition of Italy's abortion law
1. Wide of anti-abortion activists in front of the Colosseum
2. Mid of anti-abortion activists in front of the Colosseum with placards, some reading (Italian) "Abortion is homicide", "Every abortion is a dead baby", "Stop silent...
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Thousands of pilgrims gather in St Peter's Square for Pope Benedict's last general audience
1. Various of people going through security checks in Saint Peter's Square
2. Mid of nuns joining queue for security checks
3. Wide of crowds in front of Saint Peter's Basilica
4. Mid of nuns
5. Mid of Indian pilgrim Pratap Nayak with...
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Protestants and Catholics take legal action against Sunday shopping
1. Wide of shopping centre
2. Mid of shop window, people passing by
3. Wide of shop interior
4. Close of shopper looking at products
5. Mid of shop window, woman looking at shoes
6. Wide of shop entrance
7. SOUNDBITE: (German) No name...
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WRAP: Religious services held at Marine base in Southern Afghan.
1. Various of Catholic mass held at US Marine base
2. US Marines praying and listening to reading by Major James 'Beau' Higgins, Marines Expeditionary Unit Intelligence Officer
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Major James 'Beau' Higgins, Marines...
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Vatican anti-abortion campaigner opens pro-life congress
1. Wide shot of the BasÄżËlica church
2. Medium shot of the church
3. Medium shot of people entering into the church
4. Medium shot of people carrying flags of different nations
5. Wide shot of the chorus singing at the beginning of...
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Unmarried women pray to Saint Anthony of Padua to help them find a husband
Women flocked to a church in Mexico City on Friday to pray to Saint Anthony of Padua to find them a husband.
They attended mass at a Roman Catholic church named after the saint.
According to tradition, single women in search of a spouse...
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Francis leads mass, invites Israeli, Palestinian presidents to Vatican
Pope Francis took the opportunity of an open-air mass in Bethlehem on Sunday to invite the Palestinian and Israeli presidents to visit the Vatican to pray for peace.
Jubilant Palestinians cheered Francis on the second day of his Middle...
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Cardinals arrive, analyst, stamps on sale
Vatican City, 12 April 2005
1. Pan St Peter's Basilica and square with Carabinieri on electric cart
2. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger getting into car
3. Cardinal Pio Laghi and Cardinal Walter Kasper in doorway
4. Cardinal Walter Kasper...
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Reaction to Pope's health, prayers in St Patrick's Cathedral
1. Times Square
2. Large monitor with images of the Pope
3. Building with news headlines
4. News about the Pope
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Voxpop:
"It is very sad for everyone, especially all the catholics in the world. He was a great...
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Catholics re-enact Passion of Christ
Night shots
1. Wide shot of penitents carrying cross
2. Penitents stopping
3. Pan from girls in white with candles to penitents whipping themselves
4. Close up blood stained back of penitent
5. Penitent whipping himself
6. Wide shot of...
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EL SALVADOR: CATHOLIC CHURCH FORGIVES KILLERS OF OSCAR ROMERO
Spanish/Nat
El Salvador's Catholic church has said it has forgiven the killers of outspoken Archbishop Oscar Romero, assassinated exactly 16 years ago.
Romero, a harsh critic of the Salvadorean military and extreme right, was shot...
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Protestant leader Ian Paisley comments after Blair talks
1. Reverend Ian Paisley, Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist leader, gets out of car and enters 10 Downing Street, residence of British Prime Minister Tony Blair
2. Windows
3. Paisley leaves 10 Downing Street and approaches media
4....
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Haitians wash away sins at sacred waterfalls
Thousands of Haitians are making their way to the sacred Saut d'Eau waterfalls this weekend as part of a three-day voodoo pilgrimage.
According to folklore, an image of the Virgin Mary appeared near the waterfalls around 200 years...
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Preparations for papal visit
Kiev, Ukraine - 21 June, 2000
1. Pan of demonstration
2. Wide of demonstration
3. Various of march,
4. Mid shot elderly lady with icons
5. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Archpriest Mefodiy
"Our faith is holiest and most gracious and we have no...
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EGYPT: PREPARATIONS FOR POPE JOHN PAUL II'S VISIT
Arabic/Eng
As John Paul II's first visit to Egypt approaches, preparations are nearly complete for this historic event, which the country is looking forward to as a spiritual as well as a political journey.
John Paul's arrives in Egypt...
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Bush, Arroyo attend church services
Pool
1. Tilt down exterior of church
2. US President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush walk down line of choir singers
3. George and Laura Bush walking
4. SOUNDBITE (English) George W. Bush, US President:
"We again thank the...
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PORTUGAL: FATIMA SECRET (2)
Fatima, Portugal - 13 May 2000
1. Pilgrims window shopping
2. Mid shot of religious portrait in shop window
3. Pan of icons of the Virgin Mary
4. Wide of crowds of worshippers waving flags
5. Wide of catholic priests at mass
6. Medium...
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ITALY/CHINA: DISCRIMINATION AGAINST CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CHINA
English/Nat
China's human rights abuses against political dissidents are well documented, as is the country's suppression of religion in Tibet.
However, many religious groups within China itself are also discriminated against, including...
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Communities on both sides of "peace lines" expect little from president's visit
1. Close of US flag being raised into the air, with small British flags
2. Wide pan right of Ian Ogle hanging UK flags and a US flag on a line across street in Cluan Place, working-class neighbourhood
3. Mid of painted sign on peace wall...