Greek Archbishop Christodoulos dies
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The head of Greece's powerful Orthodox Church, Archbishop Christodoulos, died of cancer on Monday at the age of 69.
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The alleged top al-Qaida operative in Lebanon, who was arrested 10 days ago after authorities uncovered a plot to bomb embassies and kill diplomats, died of a heart attack Monday, hospital and security officials said.
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Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinians, has died at a military hospital outside Paris.
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Greece&#39;s air force chief of staff has been sacked over delays in launching a rescue operation, after a weekend helicopter crash that killed the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria.
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The head of the Greek Orthodox Church, Archbishop Christodoulos, meets the Pope in Rome for the first time.
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Greece's Orthodox Church suspended a senior bishop Friday as it struggled to deal with growing corruption scandals that have brought deep embarrassment to the institution.
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Prime Minister Pascal Yoadimnadji of Chad died early Friday in a Paris hospital after a brain haemorrhage, the ambassador of the impoverished north-central African state said.
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Kurt Waldheim, former United Nations secretary-general and Austrian president, died on Thursday aged 88 after a short but severe illness, the Austrian presidency and a family spokesman said.
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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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The patriarch of Alexandria, the spiritual leader of the estimated 300,000 Orthodox Christians in Africa, died Saturday when a helicopter taking him and fellow churchmen
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Egypt'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, was killed in a  helicopter crash, Greek authorities said on Saturday.
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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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Senior clergy of Greece's powerful Orthodox Church are gathering in Athens to elect the new leader following the death last month of Archbishop Christodoulos.
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VATICANO - Il cordoglio e la preghiera del Papa per la morte dellÂArcivescovo di Atene e di tutta la Grecia CittÃ  del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) - Il Santo Padre Benedetto XVI ha inviato un telegramma a  Sua Eminenza Seraphim, Metropolita di Karystia e Skyros, in occasione della morte dellÂArcivescovo ortodosso di Atene e di tutta la Grecia, Christodoulos, a...
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Cardinal James A. Hickey, former archbishop of Washington, who led the Roman Catholic Church in the nation's capital for two decades, died Sunday. He was 84.
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Greece has fired its air force chief after 17 people, including a top Greek Orthodox cleric, died in a helicopter crash Saturday. The Air Force&#39;s Lieutenant General Panagiotis Papanikolaou was blamed for the
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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