Chilean Cardinal Fresno Dies at 90
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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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Bishop Ivo Lorscheiter, a prominent critic of Brazil's former military regime who also squared off with the Vatican over his progressive beliefs, died Monday, the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops said. He was 79.
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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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SANTIAGO, Chile  - When Asiria Astudillo's son was  arrested in 1975 by the military under August Pinochet's  dictatorship, she turned to the church-based Vicariate of  Solidarity, or "Vicaria," for help.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Hecklers angry at the government shouted over the sound of choirs at the tense funeral on Tuesday of Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator whose repressive rule from 1973 to 1990 made him infamous around the world for human rights abuses.
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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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Chileans remember  President Allende who died in the 1973 coup, as Gen Pinochet faces abuse claims.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Hecklers angry at the government shouted over the sound of choirs at the funeral on Tuesday of Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator whose repressive rule from 1973 to 1990 made him infamous around the world for human rights abuses.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - A leftist guerrilla who   led the group that assassinated Nicaraguan ex-dictator   Anastasio Somoza in 1980 died in Argentina of heart failure on   Friday at age 65, local media said.
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Joey Bishop, the long-faced comedian and the last surviving member of the Rat Pack, Frank Sinatraâs celebrated retinue of the 1960âs, died Wednesday night at his home in Newport Beach, Calif. He was 89.
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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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Most Rev. James Hickey, former archbishop of Washington who led the Roman Catholic Church in the US capital for two decades, died Sunday.
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The head of the Greek Orthodox Church, Archbishop Christodoulos, dies, aged 69, after a battle with cancer.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Leftist guerrillas shot and  killed a Catholic parish priest in a jungle area of northwest  Colombia, church officials said on Friday.
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Gustavo Arcos Bergnes, who fought alongside Fidel Castro in the Cuban revolution but was later imprisoned for counterrevolutionary activities, died Tuesday, according to a neighbor and the mortuary handling arrangements. He was 79.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who ruled from 1973-1990, died on Sunday, a doctor from Santiago's military hospital said.
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Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, the brutal dictator who repressed and reshaped Chile for nearly two decades, died today at the Military Hospital of Santiago.