Religious order leader Maciel dies
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The Rev. Marcial Maciel, a Mexican priest who founded the Legionaries of Christ religious order and was disciplined by Pope Benedict XVI after sex abuse allegations, has died in the United States, his order said Thursday. He was 87.
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Israel killed the chief military commander  of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad in a airstrike  Tuesday, the highest profile Israeli assassination for months,  local leaders of the group said.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Josef Mengele, the infamousNazi doctor known as the Angel of Death, died in Brazil 25years ago lonely and cash-strapped but apparently unrepentant,according to documents published this week.
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Africa&#39;s senior Greek Orthodox leader, Patriarch Petros VII of Alexandria, Egypt, and a dozen other religious officials were killed Saturday when a helicopter carrying
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Political parties suspended their election campaigns and long lines of worshippers paid their final respects Monday following the death of Sister Lucia, the last of three shepherd children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary during 1917 apparitions in the town of Fatima.
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Lucia de Jesus dos Santos, the last of three children who claimed to see the Virgin at Fatima and who revealed a vision the Catholic Church said foretold the attempt to kill Pope John Paul, died on Sunday, the Church said.
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah  - The head of the Mormon church, Gordon B. Hinckley, died on Sunday at the age of 97, church officials said.
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The patriarch of Alexandria, the spiritual leader of the estimated 300,000 Orthodox Christians in Africa, died Saturday when a helicopter taking him and fellow churchmen
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MADRID, Spain, DEC. 15, 2004 ( Zenit.org ).- Fernando Rielo Pardo, founder of the Idente Missionaries, was remembered as "an apostle, a teacher, a humanist." Rielo died Dec.
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The cleric leading resistance at a mosque stormed by Pakistani troops has been killed, officials say.
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An Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a West Bank car Monday killing a leader of a militant group linked to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat&#39;s Fatah faction and two comrades, witnesses said.
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Aloisio Lorscheider, one of Latin America's most influential cardinals, died Sunday after a lengthy hospitalization. He was 83.
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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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VATICAN CITY, SEPT. 13, 2004 .- John Paul II fondly recalled his exchanges of letters and meetings with Orthodox Patriarch Petros VII of Alexandria, who died Saturday in a helicopter accident near Mount Athos.
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Gordon Hinckley, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, dies, aged 97.
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A leader of a Philippine communist breakaway group has been killed, in what may be rivalry among former comrades. The shooting is the latest in a series of assassinations of Communist Party defectors.
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The Patriarch of Alexandria, Peter VII, one of the most senior figures in the Greek Orthodox Church, was killed along with 16 others in a helicopter crash in the Aegean Sea, Church sources said.