Mormon Church President Dies
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Gordon B. Hinckley, the longest-serving president of the Mormon church who presided over one of the greatest periods of expansion in its history, died Sunday
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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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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.
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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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Cardinal James A. Hickey, head of the Roman Catholic church in Washington, DC, for 20 years, died on Sunday, the city&#39;s regional church body said.
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Thomas S. Monson, a longtime Mormon leader who has served in the top echelon of the church for more than 40 years, will head the 13 million-member faith, Mormon church officials announced today.
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Greece's Orthodox Church leader, Archbishop Christodoulos, who eased centuries of tension with the Vatican but angered liberal critics who viewed him as an attention-seeking reactionary, died Monday at his home of cancer, church officials said. He was 69.
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Sheik Jamal al-Din Abdul Karim al-Dabban, Iraq's top Sunni Arab religious leader, died Sunday, an official said. He was 68.
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Republican Mitt Romney, trying to become the first Mormon elected president, said Monday he would miss the humility and wisdom of church President Gordon B. Hinckley and plans to attend his funeral in Salt Lake City.
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The Orthodox Church of Greece held a memorial service Wednesday for Patriarch Petros VII of Alexandria &#151; the spiritual leader of the estimated 300,000 Greek Orthodox in Africa &#151; who was killed in a helicopter crash over the weekend.
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ISLAMABAD, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- A Pakistani religious leader, allegedly linked with the al-Qaeda terrorist network, has died here in police custody, local media reported Thursday.
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Palestine&#39;s leader Yasser Arafat has died, world media announced Tuesday afternoon, citing anonymous sources &quot;close&quot; to Arafat.
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah  - Thomas Monson, a longtime senior leader of the Mormon church, was officially named its 16th president on Monday at the age of 80, assuming the reins of one of the world's fastest growing and most affluent religions.
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah  - White House hopeful Mitt Romney left the campaign trail on Saturday for the funeral of the Mormon church leader but shrugged off criticism of his faith among evangelical Christians.
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Retired Archbishop James Aloysius Hickey, leader of the Roman Catholic Church in the nation's capital for two decades, died Sunday. He was 84.
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A Romanian church leader who was exposed as a collaborator a week ago dies of a heart attack.
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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