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International
1/2/2023 10:25:50 AM
Thousands of people lined up across St. Peter's Square hours before dawn on Monday to view Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI 's body and pay their respects.
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World
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International
1/2/2023 10:22:33 AM
One would have to go back hundreds of years to find a monarch who reigned longer than Queen Elizabeth II.
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World
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International
1/1/2023 6:57:04 PM
There was no tolling of the bells of St. Peter's Basilica, no solemn announcement by a Vatican monsignor to the faithful in the square. A fisherman's ring did not get smashed and the diplomatic corps were not mobilized to send official delegations to Rome.
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International
1/1/2023 1:39:16 PM
Pope Francis hailed the "beloved" Benedict XVI on Sunday in a New Year's Day service at the Vatican, the day after his predecessor died aged 95.
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World
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International
12/31/2022 4:26:35 PM
If ever there was a moment that embodied the surreal novelty created by the first papal resignation in 600 years, it came on the morning of March 23, 2013: Newly elected Pope Francis had traveled to the papal summer retreat south of Rome and was greeted on the helipad by the previous pope, Benedict XVI, who had moved there three weeks earlier.
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World
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International
12/31/2022 4:11:56 PM
Tributes have poured in after former pope Benedict XVI died aged 95 on Saturday, almost a decade after he became the first pontiff to resign in six centuries.
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World
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International
12/31/2022 12:57:09 PM
Former pope Benedict XVI has died at the age of 95, the Vatican announced Saturday, almost a decade after he became the first pontiff to resign in six centuries.
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World
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International
12/29/2022 5:30:14 PM
Former pope Benedict XVI is "lucid and alert" and his condition remains serious but stable, the Vatican said Thursday, the day after revealing the 95-year-old's health had deteriorated.
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World
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International
12/28/2022 2:33:57 PM
The Vatican on Wednesday confirmed that the health of ex-pontiff Benedict XVI, 95, has worsened in the last few hours and he had been visited by Pope Francis.
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World
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War in Ukraine
12/25/2022 2:23:25 PM
Pope Francis used his Christmas message Sunday to lament the ``icy winds of war'' buffeting humanity and to make an impassioned plea for an immediate end to the fighting in Ukraine, a 10-month-old conflict he decried as ``senseless.''
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World
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International
12/24/2022 9:55:19 PM
Recalling Jesus' birth in a stable, Pope Francis rebuked those ``ravenous'' for wealth and power at the expense of the vulnerable, including children, in a Christmas Eve homily decrying war, poverty and greedy consumerism.
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World
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International
12/19/2022 2:16:31 PM
Pope Francis has revealed in an interview published Sunday that shortly after being elected pontiff in 2013 he wrote a resignation letter in case medical problems impede him from carrying out his duties.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Special
11/29/2022 8:47:02 PM
Khaled Mahmoud reviews Pope Tawadros II’s recently released memoir
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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COP27
11/22/2022 7:21:47 PM
Tarek Osman examines the career of Coptic Pope Kyrillos IV as part of his series of articles on the makers of modern Egyptian culture
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Egypt
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Society
11/19/2022 6:53:56 PM
Pope Tawadros II, the head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church, will launch on Saturday the first website of the trail of the Holy Family in seven languages with virtual reality navigation technology.
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Egypt
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Society
11/18/2022 10:53:54 PM
Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church held mass on Friday to celebrate 10 years of the enthronement of Pope Tawadros II on the throne of St. Mark the Apostle with the participation of 115 members of the Holy Synod.
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Sports
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World
11/10/2022 10:40:14 AM
Just how important Nick Pope's penalty shootout saves prove to be for Newcastle may not be known until February.
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World
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Region
11/6/2022 8:25:17 PM
Pope Francis urged Lebanese politicians Sunday to "put aside... personal interests" and come to an agreement on filling a power vacuum in the crisis-hit country, which currently has no president.
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World
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Region
11/6/2022 12:15:57 PM
Pope Francis said Sunday he was praying for "suffering peoples of the Middle East", at the end of a Bahrain visit promoting inter-faith dialogue in the Gulf state.
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World
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Region
11/5/2022 11:12:07 AM
About 30,000 flag-waving worshippers joined an open-air mass held by Pope Francis in mainly Muslim Bahrain on Saturday, the highlight of his outreach mission to the Gulf.
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