World Mormon Church leader Hinckley dies at 97
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah  - Gordon B. Hinckley, the world leader of Mormons who presided over a period of intensive growth for the religion, died on Sunday at the age of 97, officials said.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Sir Edmund Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest to win renown as one of the 20th century's greatest adventurers, has died, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Friday. He was 88.
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Thomas S. Monson, a longtime Mormon leader who has served in the top echelon of the church for more than 40 years, will head the 13 million-member faith, Mormon church officials announced today.
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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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Rex Humbard, a US televangelist, who enjoyed an audience of millions in his 1970s heyday, dies.
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A federal grand jury indicted the leader of a polygamous sect Wednesday, accusing him of fleeing to avoid prosecution on Utah sex charges. The one-count indictment covers a five-month period in 2006, although Warren Jeffs was believed to be on the run for a longer stretch before his arrest in August during a traffic stop near Las Vegas.
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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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Gordon B. Hinckley, the president and prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, led Mormonism through a period of global expansion.
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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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By Ben Winslow Deseret Morning News  While Fundamentalist LDS Church leader Warren Jeffs is remaining silent on a personal-injury lawsuit filed against him, lawyers for the polygamist church's financial arm are registering their objections.
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Mormon Church president Gordon Hinckley died in Salt Lake City, Utah, late Saturday at the age of 97, church officials said.
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Helen Copley, former chairman of privately held newspaper chain the Copley Press and publisher of the San Diego Union-Tribune, has died at the age of 81, the newspaper said on Thursday.
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Juan Francisco Fresno, the cardinal who played a key role in efforts to restore democracy in Chile during the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, has died, Roman Catholic Church authorities said. He was 90.
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah  - Three days before "Super Tuesday" voting that could decide the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney detoured from the campaign trail on Saturday to attend the funeral of Mormon church leader Gordon Hinckley.
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Cardinal James Aloysius Hickey, head of the Washington Archdiocese for 20 years, died at a Washington nursing home Sunday, the Washington Post reported.
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French motorcyclist Richard Sainct, who won the Paris-Dakar rally three times, was killed in a crash in the Pharaohs Rally in Egypt on Wednesday, the French motorcycle federation said.
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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.