Former British PM Blair converts to Catholicism: officials
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Former British prime minister Tony Blair has become a Roman Catholic, church officials said Saturday, ending widespread speculation that he would switch to the faith of his wife and four children.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair stoked a simmering debate over religious tolerance and cultural assimilation on Friday, saying it was the duty of all immigrants to integrate into British society.
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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair converts from the Anglican church to the Catholic faith.
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Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, seeking a settlement for the troubled Basque country, thanked Britain's Tony Blair for sharing experiences of brokering a peace deal in Northern Ireland.
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Mr. Blair also announced plans to more carefully allocate funding to faith groups, saying grants would no longer be awarded to organizations that do not promote understanding.Comment
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Britain's former Prime Minister Tony Blair converts from the Anglican church to the Catholic faith.
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LEEDS CASTLE, England  - A high-stakes effort to revive a Catholic-Protestant government for Northern Ireland has ended in failure, British Prime Minister Tony Blair conceded Saturday. Negotiators have ``not yet achieved a comprehensive agreement,'' Blair said, speaking at the end of a three-day diplomatic push to revive the Good Friday peace accord of 1998
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern were meeting Northern Ireland's main Protestant and Catholic leaders as efforts intensified to seal a comprehensive power-sharing deal in ...
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LEEDS CASTLE, England Sept. 18, 2004 - High-pressure talks among rival Northern Ireland parties ended Saturday with no agreement to revive a Catholic-Protestant administration, but British Prime Minister
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Britain&#39;s outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie arrived at the Vatican on Saturday for a private audience with Pope Benedict XVI.
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Prime Ministers Tony Blair of Britain and Bertie Ahern of Ireland were to visit Belfast amid fading hopes of a breakthrough to restore Catholic-Protestant power-sharing in Northern Ireland.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair held long talks with Pope Benedict XVI in a Vatican meeting Saturday, a stop on his farewell tour that has fueled rumors he plans to become a Roman Catholic.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair reported to parliament on last week's EU summit, saying the decision to start accession talks with Turkey in 2005 is proof that Christians and Muslims can work together.
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Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair will meet Pope Benedict at the Vatican on Saturday to prepare to convert to Roman Catholicism, British newspapers reported on Friday.
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Britainâs former prime minister, Tony Blair, will join the banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Company as a part-time adviser, a person with knowledge of the decision said Wednesday night.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair called in Northern Ireland&#39;s biggest Protestant and Catholic parties Wednesday for talks on clearing the tricky last hurdles stopping them sharing power in Belfast.
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LEEDS CASTLE, England Sept. 16, 2004 - Northern Ireland&#39;s rival politicians face &quot;a moment of decision&quot; in their six-year struggle to forge a stable Catholic-Protestant government, Prime Minister Tony Blair