Italian nun slain in Somalia, Pope link speculation
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Gunmen killed an Italian nun at a   children's hospital in Mogadishu on Sunday in an attack that   drew immediate speculation of links to Muslim anger over the   Pope's recent remarks on Islam.
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ROME, Sep 19 (IPS) - The Vatican, seat of the Roman Catholic faith,  launched a diplomatic drive this week to explain the Pope's  controversial references to Islam.
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Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri will soon release a new message about the pope, President Bush and Sudan's troubled Darfur region, an Islamic Web site said Wednesday.
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Viewpoint: Kidnapped journalists converting at gunpoint. The Pope quoting a 14th century Byzantine emperor. The sudden focus on forced conversions to Islam reflects a fundamental misreading of that religion's history
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CAIRO, Egypt An Internet statement -- purportedly from a group that claimed to have kidnapped two Italian aid workers in Iraq -- says those women have been killed.
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The Italian government has urged caution on reports that two Italian women being held captive in Iraq have been killed, saying the claims are unreliable and part of a terrorism campaign being carried out ...
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Insurgents kidnapped a Catholic archbishop and targeted security forces in a series of brazen assaults Monday that killed more than 20 people. A suicide bomber attacked U.S. Marines in Ramadi, where insurgents also beheaded two Shiite Muslims and left their bodies on a sidewalk.
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CittÃ  del Vaticano (AsiaNews) â âDolore e preoccupazioneâ per il terrorismo in Israele e Russia; âesecrazioneâ per il massacro dei nepalesi; âtrepidazioneâ per la sorte dei giornalisti francesi rapiti in Iraq.
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An elderly Italian nun who devoted her life to helping the sick in Africa was shot dead by two gunmen at a hospital Sunday in an attack possibly linked to worldwide Muslim anger toward Pope Benedict XVI.
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DUBAI : An Islamist group has threatened to kill two Italian women held hostage in Iraq if Rome does not withdraw its troops from the war-torn country within 24 hours, according to an internet statement.
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Two days after a grueling papal pilgrimage which left some wondering if Pope John Paul II could still travel, the Vatican on Tuesday announced details of the ailing pontiff's next trip.
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The purported execution of the two women, both aid workers abducted more than two weeks ago in Baghdad along with two Iraqi colleagues, caused consternation in Italy, with Italian TV and radio running special bulletins through the night.
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DUBAI : A group calling itself the &quot;Jihad Organization&quot; said it had killed two Italian hostages in Iraq, in a statement posted on an Islamist website, but Italy urged caution over the reported murders.
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Sister Leonella Sgorbati, who was slain outside a hospital where she worked as a missionary in Somalia's restive capital, was remembered Thursday as a devoted nun who was willing to die to help the starving and sick in Africa.
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VATICAN CITY, Sept. 16 -- Pope Benedict XVI "sincerely regrets" offending Muslims with his reference to an obscure medieval text that characterizes some of the teachings of Islam's founder as "evil and inhuman," a senior Vatican official said in a statement Saturday.
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DUBAI - Il Vaticano non Ã¨ e Â«non sarÃ  maiÂ» tra gli obiettivi terroristici di Al Qaeda. Lo riporta un messaggio diffuso su internet delle brigate Abu Hafs al Masri-battaglione d&#39;Europa, gruppo. ritenuto vicino all&#39;organizzazione di Osama Bin Laden.
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AN Italian national with a lengthy criminal record might have been taken hostage in Iraq and killed, the Italian foreign ministry said today.