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Pope and cardinals arrive for meeting on eve of Consistory
1. Wide St. Peter's Square, working putting out chairs for open air Consistory on Friday
2. Workers preparing square for Consistory
3. Close up workers painting altar
4. Close up pigeons
5. Close up fountain in St. Peter's Square
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Sand sculptures representing world monuments on display
1. Wide of coastline
2. Pan of entrance to Sand Sculpture Festival
3. Tourists looking at sculptures
4. Tilt down sculpture of a Chinese building to the sculptor working on it
5. Sphinx head sculpture
6. Spanish sculptor Benjamin...
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AUSTRIA: SALZBURG: POPE JOHN PAUL II CELEBRATES MASS
Natural Sound
Pope John Paul II celebrated mass in Salzburg on Friday, opening his third visit to Austria.
He arrives this time in the midst of a crisis in the Austrian Roman Catholic church which critics say is partly the Vatican's...
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Cardinals arrive for meeting, tourists visit basilica
1. Wide of Sant'Uffizi gate with Swiss Guards
2. Cardinal Paul Shan, Bishop of Kaohsiung (Taiwan) walking
3. Cardinal Karl Lehmann, Archbishop of Magonza, Germany
4. Group of cardinals entering gate
5. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Cardinal...
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Catholics in Latin America look to the future
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 11 April 2005
1. Zoom-out from Vidigal Shanty Town to wide of Leblon Beach
2. Wide of Vidigal Shanty Town
3. Pre-roll shot of Marcos Antonio Silva Oliveira - zoom-out from his photo with the pope to wide of...
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Preparations for beatification, pilgrims flooding in
Vatican City
1. Wide of pilgrims outside St. Peter's Basilica
2. Various of pilgrims queueing in St. Peter's Square
3. Poster of late Pope John Paul II
4. Banner in square advertising exhibition about John Paul II
5. Pilgrims entering...
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ITALY: ARGENTINEAN GROUP FILE CHARGES AGAINST FORMER VATICAN ENVOY
Spanish/Eng/Nat
The Argentinean human rights group Mothers of Plaza de Mayo filed charges against former Papal Nuncio and Vatican envoy in Argentina, Monsignor Pio Laghi on Tuesday.
They accuse him of participating directly in the...
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WRAP Papal health bulletin plus latest reactions
1. Wide shot of hospital
2. Tilt up pope''s hospital window
3. Close up of pope''s window
4. Three Vatican officials get out of car and walk into hospital (papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls in the middle)
5. Bulletin being delivered...
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Heads of state and royalty at signing event
1. Wide shot pan politicians and officials
2. Mid shot British Prime Minister Tony Blair in audience
3. Mid shot Jacques Rogge, head of International Olympic Committee, in audience
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) George Papandreou, Vice-Chairman...
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Mayor comments on Church of Nativity, plus situation
1. Wide shot Bethlehem skyline
2. Long shot of Church of Nativity
3. Israeli troops on armoured personnel carrier (APC)
4. Various of soldiers on APC
5. Israeli APC patrolling Bethlehem street
6. Close up sign of Church of Nativity
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Mass to commemorate slain founder of Taize community
1. Wide of pilgrims listening to memorial mass for murdered Brother Roger, inside St Agnes Church
2. Mid of pilgrims singing during mass
3. Mid of musicians playing
4. Close on pilgrims singing
5. Zoom out on candles burning
6. Close on...
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American ambassador says Vatican wants US to stay and pacify Iraq
1. Wide shot of St Peter's Square
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Nicholson, US Ambassador to the Holy See:
"We had an honest disagreement between two great leaders and what happened, happened and most of the people, virtually all of them in...
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ITALY: POPE HOSTS A MEETING OF BISHOPS FROM FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
Italian/Nat
Pope John Paul-the-second has hosted a meeting of bishops from the former Yugoslavia to discuss how the Catholic Church can help rebuild the region.
Twenty-two bishops, including those from Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia and...
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Italy - Fasting Pope Give Faithful Food For Though
Rome, Italy natsot Duration: 1.02"
Pope John Paul II, in a speech marking Ash Wednesday, said fasting
was good for the body as well as the soul. Abstinence and fasting
is a Catholic tradition on Ash...
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Vatican newspaper released
1. Wide pan across St Peter''s Square
2. Pan to kiosk selling newspapers
3. Kiosk vendor placing Vatican newspaper, "L''Obsservatore Romano" ("The Roman Observer"), in news-stand
4. Pull out from front page of Roman Observer reading (in...
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Hospital spokesman gives statement on Pope''s condition
1. Vatican and hospital spokesman Nicola Cerbino walks on stage
2. SOUNDBITE (Italian): Nicola Cerbino, Vatican and Gemelli Polyclinic Hospital Spokesman:
"The flu syndrome, that caused the Pope to be admitted this morning to the Gemelli...
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VENEZUELA: CARACAS: FINAL PREPARATIONS UNDERWAY FOR POPE'S VISIT
Spanish/Nat
Final preparations are now underway for the Pope's forthcoming visit to Venezuela.
Pope John Paul II will be visiting Venezuela in February as part of a Latin American tour which will also take him to El Salvador, Guatemala...
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People praying for Pope's recovery, vox pops
1. Wide shot of people church interior, some kneeling as they go towards altar
2. Reverse shot of people kneeling as they pray
3. Mid shot women kneeling and praying
4. Wide shot people lighting candles with crucifix at background
5. Mid...
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WRAP Archbishop and students pray for Pope''s recovery
Manila
1. Wide shot of mass in church
2. Archbishop Gaudencio Rosales in procession
3. Priests facing altar
4. Congregation signing the cross
5. Archbishop Rosales officiating mass
6. Wide shot of mass
7. Priests signing the cross
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WEST BANK: BETHLEHEM: POPE JOHN PAUL II'S VISIT
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Pope John Paul the Second has embarked on a politically sensitive pilgrimage to the West Bank town of Bethlehem, revered as the place of Jesus' birth.
The papal helicopter touched down on Wednesday at a helipad near...
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ITALY: CUBAN PRESIDENT CASTRO PREPARES TO MEET POPE JOHN PAUL II
Spanish/Nat
Cuba's President Fidel Castro is preparing for his historic meeting with Pope John Paul after his high-profile appearance at the five-day World Food Summit in Rome.
Tuesday's encounter will be the first meeting ever between...
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Catholics mourn Pope, flags at half mast
1. Luneta Park
2. Various of Philippine flags at half-mast
3. Security guard fixing flag pole rope
4. Flags
5. Various of newspaper headlines about the Pope
6. SOUNDBITE: (Tagalog) Lory Baguno, Newspaper Vendor:
"We are sad, especially...
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Public react to news of Pope''s readmission to hospital
1. Sign reading "Holy See Press Office"
2. Various of written Vatican announcement
3. Various of Vatican City street scenes
4. VOX POP: (English) Name not given:
A: "No I didn''t realise. No. I didn''t know, sorry.
Q: Did you hear about...
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Strict protocol of Sede Vacante, or empty seat followed
1. Wide shot St. Peter's Basilica
2. Mid shot statues on St. Peter's Basilica
3. Close-up statue on St. Peter's
4. Close-up three stamps 'Sede Vacante' (empty seat) from the 1963 issue
5. Close-up 'Sede Vacante' stamp from 1978
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