Head of Greek Orthodox Church dies
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The head of Greece's powerful Orthodox Church, Archbishop Christodoulos, who mended ties with the Vatican but clashed with the Greek state, died of cancer on Monday at the age of 69.
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Greek Defense Minister Spilios Spiliotopoulos fired on Sunday the country&#39;s air force chief following a military helicopter crash, which killed 17 people on board including
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The popular, outspoken head of Greece's powerful Orthodox Church was buried Thursday in a state funeral attended by thousands of mourners and top Greek officials.
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Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinians, has died at a military hospital outside Paris.
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An alleged top operative of al-Qaida in Lebanon arrested 10 days ago died of a heart attack on Monday, the Interior Ministry said.
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Cardinal James A. Hickey, former archbishop of Washington, who led the Roman Catholic Church in the nation&#39;s capital for two decades, died Sunday.
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Yasser Arafat, the leader for decades of a fight for Palestinian independence from Israel, has died at a military hospital in Paris, according to news reports.
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ATHENS, Greece - The Patriarch of Alexandria, the spiritual leader of all Orthodox Christians in Africa, died yesterday when a helicopter taking him and fellow churchmen to a monastic enclave in northern Greece crashed into the sea, government and church
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Cardinal James A. Hickey, former archbishop of Washington, who led the Roman Catholic Church in the nation's capital for two decades, died Sunday. He was 84.
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Cardinal James A. Hickey, head of  the Roman Catholic church in Washington, D.C., for 20 years,  died on Sunday, the city's regional church body said. He was  84.
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Greece's Orthodox Church leader, Archbishop Christodoulos, who eased centuries of tension with the Vatican but angered liberal critics who viewed him as an attention-seeking reactionary, died Monday at his home of cancer, church officials said. He was 69.
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ATHENSâEgypt&#39;s Patriarch of Alexandria, whose post traces its lineage to one of Christ&#39;s disciples, was killed with his Greek Orthodox retinue yesterday in a helicopter crash, Greek authorities confirmed.
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Athens:A senior leader of the Greek Orthodox Church has been killed along with 16 other people in a helicopter crash off the coast of northern Greece.
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CAIRO, Sept 14  - The funeral of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, who was killed in a weekend helicopter crash off the coast of Greece, will be held in Egypt on Wednesday, church officials said.
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Gordon Hinckley, the longtime head of the Mormon Church who died Sunday, had much to do with moving Mormonism closer to the mainstream
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Archbishop Christodoulos of the Greek Orthodox Church died Monday after a battle with cancer, church officials told CNN. He was 69.
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Greece&#39;s air force chief of staff was sacked Sunday over delays in launching a rescue operation after a weekend helicopter crash that killed the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, the church&#39;s number two.