Vatican honours Spanish war dead
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Some 498 Catholics executed in the Spanish Civil War are honoured in the Vatican's largest-ever beatification.
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GRANADA, Spain -- On a hillside overlooking the Sierra Nevada mountains, a gnarled olive tree and a simple granite marker stand where historians believe Spain's most celebrated 20th-century poet, Federico Garcia Lorca, was summarily executed and dumped in a communal grave.
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Spain's king brought President Bush a message of goodwill Wednesday from Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, whose vocal opposition to the Iraq war has chilled U.S.-Spanish relations.
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Pope Benedict XVI has put Sister Lucia, the last of three shepherd children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary during apparitions in 1917, on a fast-track to possible sainthood, the Vatican said Wednesday.
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Spain is to pay out citizens who were forced to flee abroad as children during the 1930s civil war.
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Pope Benedict is due to visit Austria, where he will join Jewish leaders to pay tribute to victims of the Nazis.
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Lo ha detto il portavoce vaticano Joaquin Navarro Valls
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Pope John Paul II yesterday honored two figures linked to controversy, beatifying a German mystic whose violent visions of Christ's suffering helped inspire Mel Gibson's movie ''The Passion of the Christ,&quot; and an Austrian emperor whose troops used poison gas. Before 30,000 people, including royalty and government representatives from Latin America and Europe, the pontiff also beatified an Italian nun ...
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Political parties suspended their election campaigns and long lines of worshippers paid their final respects Monday following the death of Sister Lucia, the last of three shepherd children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary during 1917 apparitions in the town of Fatima.
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Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday praised an Italian nun for pardoning her killers as she lay dying from an attack that was may have been linked to Muslim anger over his remarks about Islam and violence.
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VATICAN CITY Oct. 3, 2004 - Pope John Paul II on Sunday honored two figures linked to controversy, beatifying a German mystic whose violent visions of Christ&#39;s suffering helped inspire Mel Gibson&#39;s &quot;The
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Servicemen and women who died in wars are remembered across Wales on Remembrance Sunday.
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Spain's defence minister visits Spanish troops in Lebanon after six died in an attack on UN peacekeepers.
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Services to remember the dead of two world wars and other conflicts are held across Northern Ireland.
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VATICAN CITY : Pope John Paul II on Sunday beatified the last Austro-Hungarian emperor, Charles I, and a German mystic whose visions inspired Mel Gibson&#39;s controversial film &quot;The Passion of the Christ&quot;.
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In a gesture of friendship with the Orthodox Church, Pope John Paul II on Saturday handed over the bones of two early Christian saints that were brought to Rome from ancient Constantinople centuries ago.
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VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II on Sunday honored two figures linked to controversy, beatifying a German mystic whose violent visions of Christ's suffering helped inspire Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" and an Austrian emperor whose troops used poison gas.    Beatification is the last formal step in the Catholic Church before the possible conferring of sainthood, and John Paul has now beatified a record 1,338 faithful in his quest to give believers new models of sanctity...