Fugitive Priest Arrested
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A Roman Catholic priest is being held in Phoenix on charges that he assaulted a woman who worked at his Las Vegas church.  A hearing is scheduled for Tuesday in Maricopa County to determine whether the Rev. George Chaanine will waive extradition from Arizona to Nevada.
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A well known gaelic footballer is arrested during a police operation at his home in south Armagh.
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Haleh Esfandiari left Iran yesterday, but a scholar who was arrested along with her is still being held.
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Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri is arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences.
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China has detained eight Roman Catholic priests in northern Hebei province, continuing a crackdown on those loyal to the Pope, a U.S.-based religious right group said on Wednesday.
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The Rev. Joseph Dantica fled to the United States nearly a month ago, seeking asylum after gangs in his neighborhood ransacked his church and threatened to kill him.
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By Review-Journal  REVIEW-JOURNAL  The Roman Catholic priest accused of beating and sexually assaulting a female employee at the Our Lady of Las Vegas Catholic Church was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Saturday, Las Vegas police said.
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A top cleric from Israel's Islamic Movement has been arrested on charges of assault and public disorder over last week's riots at Jerusalem's Temple Mount.
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Vietnamese police have accused a prominent dissident Catholic priest of disseminating propaganda intended to undermine the communist government, officials and state media said Monday.
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Marxist rebels have killed a Catholic priest who disappeared earlier this month on a pastoral mission in a rebel-controlled jungle region in western Colombia, a church official said Friday.
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ATHENS, Greece Aug. 29, 2004 - The defrocked Irish priest who bolted from the crowd and tackled the marathon leader about three miles from the finish Sunday has been arrested before for disrupting sporting events.
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The fugitive leader of a polygamist Mormon sect has been arrested in southern Nevada, the FBI said Tuesday.
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Gunmen abducted an Italian Roman Catholic priest who was on his way to a remote village to celebrate Sunday Mass in the southern Philippines, police said.
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China has detained eight Roman Catholic  priests in northern Hebei province, continuing a crackdown on  those loyal to the Pope, a U.S.-based religious right group  said on Wednesday.
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Two Roman Catholic priests allegedly   misappropriated more than $8 million from their church and   spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on real estate, travel,   rare coins and girlfriends, police in Florida said on Friday.
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A fugitive doctor accused of running a shadowy organ transplant operation in India that illegally removed hundreds of kidneys Â in some cases from unwilling donors Â has been arrested in southern Nepal, an official said Friday.
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A Roman Catholic priest who is accused of beating, groping and choking a soloist at his Las Vegas church was arrested Thursday in Arizona, authorities said.