Greece air crash kills top cleric
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Athens:A senior leader of the Greek Orthodox Church has been killed along with 16 other people in a helicopter crash off the coast of northern Greece.
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Patriarch Petros VII, of Alexandria, Egypt, the spiritual leader of Greek Orthodox Christians in Africa, was killed Saturday in a helicopter crash.
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - Gunmen killed a Sunni Muslim  cleric in the city of Miqdadiya Tuesday, the second such  killing in Iraq in as many days, witnesses and hospital  officials said.
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Thousands attend the funeral of a Pakistani cleric who died in controversial circumstances.
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The funeral of Palestinian President  Yasser Arafat began on Friday when Egypt's top Muslim cleric  said prayers over his coffin at a military base in Cairo.
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A bomb exploded at the gate to one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines on Wednesday. Early reports say that several were killed and possibly dozens wounded, including a top aide of Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, officials said.
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The Christian Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria was killed Saturday after an army helicopter that was transporting him and his entourage to a monastic enclave in northern Greece crashed in the sea, according to government and church officials.
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A suicide car bomber killed a prominent Shiite Muslim cleric and one of his relatives in this southern Pakistan city on Friday, police said.
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Egypt&#39;s Patriarch of Alexandria, a top Greek Orthodox leader in a post that traces its lineage back to one of the first disciples of Christ, has been killed in a helicopter crash, Greek authorities say.
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The funeral of the head of the Greek Orthodox Church,  Archbishop Christodoulos, is held in Athens.
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The spiritual leader of the most active insurgency group in Iraq, Tawhid and Jihad, has been killed in a U.S. airstrike and his Jordanian family is preparing a wake, a Jordanian newspaper and Islamic clerics said Wednesday.
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ATHENS -- The Christian Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria was killed yesterday after an army helicopter transporting him and his entourage to a monastic enclave in northern Greece crashed into the sea, according to government and church officials.
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ATHENS - 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 them to the monastic community of Mount Athos in northern Greece crashed
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"The archbishop's death was a great loss for the Orthodox world"  The popular, outspoken head of Greece's powerful Orthodox Church was buried Thursday in a state funeral attended by thousands of mourners and top Greek officials.Mourners bearing flags clapped and a 21-gun salute rang out as Archbishop Christodoulos' open casket wound through the city center on a carriage, followed by a large cortege on foot.'The archbishop was close to the people and the people loved him. We honor him today,' Bishop Simeon of Nea Smyrni said after the funeral service. Read more
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One of the most prominent Shia clerics in Bahrain, Abdul Amir al-Jamri, dies at the age of 69.
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ATHENS A day after a helicopter crash killed Africa&#39;s senior Greek Orthodox leader and 16 other people, Defense Minister Spilios Spiliotopoulos of Greece dismissed the head of the air force and then offered his own resignation.
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Wednesday saw another twist in the drawn-out cliffhanger on Yasser Arafatâs demise which started 13 days ago. The senior Palestinian Muslim cleric Sheikh Taissir Tamimi who was dispatched to the Percy hospital