Vatican honours Spanish war dead
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Some 498 Catholics executed in the Spanish Civil War are honoured in the Vatican's largest-ever beatification.
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The Pope has praised an Italian nun who forgave her killers as she lay dying after an attack in Somalia.
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The medical bulletin issued, in Italian, by chief Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls on the pope's condition says:
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Pope Benedict XVI issued a Christmas Day appeal Tuesday to political leaders around the globe to find the ''wisdom and courage'' to end bloody conflicts in Darfur, Iraq, Afghanistan and Congo.
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Spain is marking the third anniversary of the Madrid terror bombings that killed 191 people on Sunday with the unveiling of a towering glass monument bearing messages of condolence left written in the days ...Comment
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VATICAN CITY Oct. 3, 2004 - Pope John Paul II on Sunday honored two figures linked to controversy, beatifying a German mystic whose violent visions of Christ&#39;s suffering helped inspire Mel Gibson&#39;s &quot;The
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Pope John Paul II yesterday honored two figures linked to controversy, beatifying a German mystic whose violent visions of Christ's suffering helped inspire Mel Gibson's movie ''The Passion of the Christ,&quot; and an Austrian emperor whose troops used poison gas. Before 30,000 people, including royalty and government representatives from Latin America and Europe, the pontiff also beatified an Italian nun ...
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Poles prayed for Pope John Paul II in the church where he was baptized. Australian pilgrims sang songs as they held vigil outside his hospital in Rome. Mexicans gathered in churches before dawn to light candles.
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LONDON  - Prince Charles joined 140 military widows Saturday for an annual ceremony honouring Britain's war dead, including those killed in Iraq.
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Pope John Paul has traveled to Italy&#39;s Adriatic coast northeast of Rome to beatify two devout Italians and a Spaniard who lived and died in the 20th century, placing them on the road to sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.
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The beatification of 498 Catholics  killed during the Spanish Civil war was not politically  motivated, the Vatican's number two said on Monday.
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Relatives seeking information on two Israeli soldiers who were seized by Hezbollah militants in northern Israel at the start of last year's Lebanon war met Wednesday with Pope Benedict XVI.
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Spain celebrated its National Day on Tuesday with a military parade that added French troops and snubbed the United States by dropping the recent participation of U.S. Marines.
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Pope Benedict XVI approved recognition of martyrdom for an Austrian who was beheaded by the Nazis for refusing to serve in Hitler's army, a step toward possible sainthood.
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First the militia fighters thought of hacking the bishop to death with an ax. In the end, they showed pity and shot him Â one of hundreds of executions of Roman Catholic clergy as civil war erupted in Spain.
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Pope Benedict XVI praised marriage between a man and a woman as part of God&#039;s &quot;loving plan,&quot; defending the traditional family Sunday at a Mass in Spain attended by hundreds of thousands.
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The Spanish military &#151; once a crusty remnant of a right-wing regime closely linked to the Roman Catholic Church &#151; got its first public taste of gay marriage Friday as two male soldiers wed, sealing their union with gold rings and a long kiss.