Ireland 'peace inspiration': Pope
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Northern Ireland should be an inspiration to those around the world seeking peace, the Pope has said.
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Pope Benedict backed Ankara's EU entry bid and said Islam was a religion of peace on Tuesday, according to Turkey's prime minister, in a bid to soothe rows over his views in the mostly Muslim state.
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MADRID, Sep 23 (IPS) - Only an alliance of civilisations, religions and   cultures can bring peace to the world. This belief is shared by  a range of  public figures in Spain who represent different  positions and nationalities,  yet concur in their support for the  proposal to this effect put forward in  the United Nations by  Spanish Prime Minister JosÃ© Luis RodrÃ­guez Zapatero.
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VATICAN CITY  - In a Christmas shadowed by violence and the threat of conflict around the world, Pope John Paul II expressed &quot;great apprehension&quot; over the situation in Iraq but optimism at the outlook in the Palestinian crisis.
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Northern Ireland's peace process will face "an enormous tragedy" if political rivals cannot agree this month to revive a Catholic-Protestant administration in the British territory, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said Monday.
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Pope Benedict XVI decried the collapse of marriages, telling tens of thousands of young Catholics Saturday that he was praying that a crisis in traditional family values doesn't become an "irreversible failure."
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LEEDS CASTLE, England - A high-stakes effort to revive a Catholic-Protestant government for Northern Ireland has ended in failure, but hope remains of an eventual breakthrough, the prime ministers of Britain and Ireland said Saturday.    Britain's Tony Blair and Ireland's Bertie Ahern had tried for three days to broker an agreement between Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army-linked party, and the Democratic Unionists, who represent most of the province's British Protestant majority...
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Northern Ireland's peace process is reaching a point of decision, Secretary of State Paul Murphy says.
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"I heard it was very successful"  The Vatican on Saturday bid farewell to Tony Blair as British prime minister, wishing him well on what it said were his plans to work for Middle East peace and interreligious dialogue.Blair held long talks with Pope Benedict XVI, with the Vatican stop on his farewell tour fueling rumors that he plans to convert to Catholicism. The two men met privately for 25 minutes and then were joined for further talks by English Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor.A Vatican press office called the audience a normal meeting between the pope and a government leader. Blair leaves office on Wednesday. Read more
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Pope Benedict told U.S. President George W. Bush on Saturday that the Vatican would like a "regional and negotiated" solution to Middle East conflicts, as anti-U.S. protesters converged on Rome.
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DUBLIN -- Northern Ireland's peace process will face &quot;an enormous tragedy&quot; if political rivals cannot agree this month to revive a Catholic-Protestant administration in the British territory, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said yesterday.
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Pope John Paul told the world in his Christmas message on Saturday that people were yearning for peace everywhere around the globe and expressed particular concern for Iraq, the Middle East and Africa.
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The Catholic Primate of Ireland, Archbishop Sean Brady, has said that the blame game will not lead anywhere in the bid for a final agreement in the Northern peace process.
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Social and political evil is  spreading through the world, causing war, injustice, violence  and desperation, Pope John Paul said in his annual peace  message on Thursday.
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Valls was quoted as saying many thanked the pope for all that he said about peace in the world, above all on the subject of preventive war.
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Pope Benedict XVI said Wednesday that tourism should help different cultures bridge gaps and promote dialogue between people.
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Britain and Ireland will "find another way" to promote Northern Ireland's peace accord if local parties can't cut a deal to revive power-sharing by Nov. 26, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said Tuesday.