Pope to deliver Christmas message
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Pope John Paul II prepares to deliver his Christmas message, expected to focus on conflicts around the world.
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Pope John Paul II is expected to broadcast his traditional Sunday blessing from his hospital room in Rome.
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Text of President Bush's Christmas 2004 message:
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Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri will soon release a new message about the pope, President Bush and Sudan's troubled Darfur region, an Islamic Web site said Wednesday.
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A senior Vatican cardinal is to inaugurate an international low-cost charter flight service for pilgrims.
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Pope John Paul led the world's one  billion Roman Catholics into Christmas Day and said the  troubled world needed the message of Jesus more than ever,  braving Parkinson's Disease to deliver his sermon.
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The world's media outlets should use their power to promote peace and understanding and to mobilize aid during natural disasters, as happened following the recent tsunami in Asia, Pope John Paul II said in a message released Monday.
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Pope Benedict XVI plans to discuss Iraq and the plight of Christians in that war-torn country when he meets for the first time with President Bush this week, the Vatican No. 2 said in an interview published Sunday.
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Christians around the world celebrated Christmas Saturday with Pope John Paul II leading prayers for peace and a more tranquil future, as pilgrims flocked to Bethlehem, and Iraqis
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Pope John Paul II called for an ``end to the spread of violence&#39;&#39; and for support to ``sustain the efforts to build peace&#39;&#39; in his annual Christmas Day message.
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Pope John Paul is not yet strong  enough to read his entire traditional noon message on Sunday  and looks set to miss Ash Wednesday services for the first time  in his papacy.
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Pope Benedict will meet Muslim   ambassadors to the Vatican and Italian Islamic leaders on   Monday to try to calm lingering anger over his use of a   medieval text saying their religion was spread by violence.
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The Vatican said yesterday that Pope Benedict XVI will soon issue a document providing for wider use of the Tridentine Mass, the centuries-old Latin rite that was largely supplanted in the 1960s by a new liturgy, usually translated into modern languages.
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Pope John Paul told the world in  his Christmas message on Saturday that people everywhere were  yearning for peace and expressed particular concern for Iraq,  the Middle East and Africa.
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The head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales urged people in Britain to be more welcoming towards immigrants in his Christmas address Tuesday.
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The spiritual leader of the Catholic world, Pope Jean Paul II, celebrated Christmas with a prayer for universal peace at the Vatican&#39;s famous San Pietro Square.
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Pontefice parla a festa presentazione di Gesu'