Pope to deliver Christmas message
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Pope John Paul II prepares to deliver his Christmas message, expected to focus on conflicts around the world.
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The leader of the world's Anglicans is hitting the video-sharing website YouTube for the first time Monday to preach environmental awareness in his New Year message.
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Four UK church leaders are to make a pilgrimage to Bethlehem just before Christmas.
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A frail but determined pope delivered his traditional Christmas sermon in Rome's St.
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The Archbishop of Wales uses his Christmas message to warn of dangers posed by "atheistic fundamentalism".
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Pope Benedict XVIÂs visit to Turkey in late November is likely to be a flash point for a surprisingly broad array of issues.
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Pope John Paul told the world in his Christmas message on Saturday that people were yearning for peace everywhere around the globe and expressed particular concern for Iraq, the Middle East and Africa.
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Buckingham Palace on Sunday said the 81-year-old monarch  will post her traditional Christmas Day message -- normally  broadcast on television -- on the video-sharing Web site as  well this year.
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Pope John Paul led the world's one  billion Roman Catholics into Christmas Day and said the  troubled world needed the message of Jesus more than ever,  braving Parkinson's Disease to deliver his sermon.
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Worshippers brought hopes for greater peace in the coming year as they flocked to Manger Square in Bethlehem and to St. Peter's in the Vatican to hear Christmas messages urging an end to violence, particularly in the Middle East. But from Indonesia to Iraq, fear overshadowed the festivities.
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Pope Benedict led the world's 1.1 billion Roman Catholics into Christmas with a midnight mass on Tuesday, urging people to find time and space for God, the needy and the suffering.
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Pope Benedict XVI urged the faithful to set aside time in their lives for God and the needy, as he ushered in Christmas early Tuesday by celebrating Midnight Mass in St. Peter's Basilica
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Worshippers brought hopes for greater peace in the coming year as they flocked to Manger Square in Bethlehem and to St. Peter&#39;s in the Vatican to hear Christmas messages urging an end to violence, particularly in the Middle East.
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Pope John Paul II made a rare allusion to his personal struggle with aging and illness, saying in a Christmas address Tuesday that each passing year brings a greater need for help from God.
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Pope John Paul II delivered his traditional Christmas plea for peace on Saturday in an address shortened this year - apparently because of his poor health - but packed
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The Queen has delivered her traditional Christmas message from Buckingham Palace choosing to focus on racial and religious tolerance.
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Pope Benedict XVI is to canonise a new saint for Ireland in a ceremony at St Peter's Square on Sunday.