Pope Prays for Beslan School Dead at Italy Mass
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Pope John Paul prayed for the victims of the &quot;inhumane violence&quot; of Russia&#39;s Beslan school tragedy as he said Mass on Sunday before 200,000 people in central Italy.
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Benedict XVI will preside Tuesday at a funeral Mass in St. Peter's Basilica for Cardinal Angelo Felici, who died in Rome Sunday.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Mourners prepared on Sunday for  the first funerals of 330 people killed in the bloody battle  that ended the siege of a southern Russian school on Friday --  but others did not know if loved ones had survived.
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Russia, stunned by the deaths of more than 300 people in the country's worst ever hostage drama, began an official period of national mourning a day after grief-stricken families started burying their loved ones in the town of Beslan.
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Moscow, Sept. 5 (NNN): Russia on Sunday buried some of the victims of hostage crisis in Beslan in North Ossetia with three more children succumbing to injuries taking the toll in school tragedy to 333 as parents
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Pope Benedict said on Wednesday that Christians faced persecution, torture and death in some parts of the world and continued to be made martyrs for their faith.
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Friends and relatives attended a Roman Catholic funeral mass in London on Saturday for British- Iraqi hostage Margaret Hassan, believed to have been killed by her captors in Iraq.
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Pope John Paul, aiming to improve ties with Russia&#39;s Orthodox Church and possibly pave the way for a papal trip, has sent an icon dear to Russians on its way back to Moscow after nearly a century in the West.
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Roman Catholic officials urged the faithful to fill St. Peter's Square on Sunday to show support for the hospitalized pope.
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Pope John Paul II was greeted yesterday by about 200,000 pilgrims at a shrine in Loreto, Italy, where he beatified three members of the lay political movement Catholic Action.
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Shocked by the deaths of more than 300 people in the Beslan hostage crisis, Russia today began two days of official mourning as the North Ossetian town continued to bury the victims of the siege.
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Services were held for 120 of the more than 300 killed when a school was seized in an attack by militants. BESLAN, RUSSIA -- Funeral processions filled the rainy streets of this southern Russian city yesterday
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BESLAN, Russia Sept. 6, 2004 - Funeral processions filled the rainy streets of this southern Russian city Monday, carrying coffins large and small, as townspeople buried scores of victims of a carefully
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Pope John Paul II hopes for reconciliation as a precious icon goes back to the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Millions of ordinary Poles offered prayers Wednesday for their country's most famous son, Pope John Paul II, who is hospitalized in Rome.
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MARIAZELL, Austria  - Pope Benedict, leading a rain-drenched mass in the Austrian mountains, said on Saturday that Europe's future would be bleak without more children and a return to trust in God and traditional values.
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It was an iconic image of hope in the death and chaos that ended the three-day Beslan school siege &#151; a girl's bloodied hand clutching a golden cross.