Pope Urges Quake Help; Europe Sends Aid
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Aid teams rushed from Europe to southern Asian countries devastated by tidal waves Sunday, warning that anything less than an urgent response would add many more deaths to a toll already in the thousands.
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International relief efforts  picked up on Tuesday for survivors of the earthquake that  killed more than 5,700 people on Indonesia&#039;s Java island, but  many victims complained that vital aid was not reaching them.
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Pope Benedict XVI urged the faithful to set aside time in their lives for God and the needy, as he ushered in Christmas early Tuesday by celebrating Midnight Mass in St. Peter's Basilica
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Humanitarian aid organization AmeriCares has begun emergency relief efforts to help millions of people affected by the powerful earthquake Sunday that devastated southern Asia.
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Relief agencies responding to the disaster in southern Asia, Indonesia and Thailand are seeking financial support locally for their efforts.
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PARIS/ROME  - Italy called on Group of Eight rich  nations on Thursday to discuss a joint response to the Indian  Ocean tsunami catastrophe as moves to grant debt relief to some  of the stricken countries gathered pace.
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From President Bush to Pope John Paul II, the world&#39;s political and spiritual leaders urged support on Sunday for victims of the giant waves in Asia as relief agencies and
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World leaders vowed on Thursday to work  more closely to help victims of the worst natural disaster in  living memory and experts warned more carnage from the Indian  Ocean tsunami may be uncovered and the death toll will climb.
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VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II expressed &quot;great apprehension&quot; about the war in Iraq and other world hot spots, as he delivered his annual Christmas Day message to thousands of followers in Rome&#39;s St Peter&#39;s Square.
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[World News]: United Nations, Dec 28 : A number of European nations and international organisations Monday began to provide aid for the Asian countries struck by powerful tsunamis.
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The European Commission pledged an additional 350 million euros (&#36;462 million) over three years on Thursday to relief efforts for the devastating Dec. 26 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.
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International relief efforts  picked up on Tuesday for survivors of the earthquake that  killed more than 5,000 people on Indonesia&#039;s Java island, but  many victims complained that vital aid was not reaching them.
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Pope Benedict XVI made a pilgrimage Saturday to a famous shrine to the Virgin Mary, where he celebrated an open-air Mass in the rain for more than 30,000 believers and called on Europeans to embrace faith.
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Pope John Paul II appealed for swift international aid to help thousands of victims from Sundays massive tidal waves that swamped coastal areas across southern Asia _ triggered by the worlds most powerful ...
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VATICAN CITY, Dec. 15 -- Pope Benedict XVI's personal priest asked the pontiff on Friday to declare a day of fasting and penance to express the Roman Catholic Church's solidarity with the victims of clerical sex abuse.
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PARIS/ROME  - Italy called on Group of Eight rich  nations Thursday to discuss a joint response to the Indian  Ocean tsunami catastrophe as moves to grant debt relief to some  of the stricken countries gathered pace.
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LORETO, Italy  - Pope John Paul prayed for the  victims of the "inhumane violence" of Russia's Beslan school  tragedy as he said Mass on Sunday before 200,000 people in  central Italy.