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WEST BANK: ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS
Natural Sound
The world's Orthodox Christians are preparing to celebrate their Christmas festival on Friday.
In Bethlehem's Manger Square orthodox priests from around the world held a service celebrating Christmas Eve on...
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CUBA: SANTIAGO: POPE JOHN PAUL II VISIT
Spanish/Nat
Pope John Paul II travelled on Saturday to Cuba's eastern-most city, Santiago.
The city has been the scene of the island's most important historic events and was the birthplace of the Cuban revolution.
The people of Santiago...
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POLAND: WARSAW: POPE JOHN PAUL II VISIT (2)
Natural Sound
The Pope was given a hero's welcome by people lining the roads of Warsaw on Friday afternoon as he made his way to a monument for Jewish Victims.
He arrived at the Warsaw monument for Jewish victims of the Holocaust before...
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WRAP Officials end queue, crowd surge, security, vox pops
Night shots:
1. Two officials lifting up police tape to allow a couple and more young women to run along to the back of the queue along the banks of the River Tiber
2. Security man tying yellow police tape to pole to prevent more people...
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Pope ends tour with beatification of 2 Mexican Indians
VATICAN POOL - July 31 2002
1. Pull out from image of Our Lady of Guadalupe to medium of Mexican President Vicente Fox and Pope John Paul II talking
2. Close up Pope
3. Close up Fox
4 Fox & Pope together
POOL - August 1 2002
5....
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GERMANY: POPE JOHN PAUL II TOURS CITY OF BERLIN
German/Nat
Pope John Paul II has toured the German city of Berlin, preaching to tens of thousands in the Olympic stadium which Adolf Hitler built.
He beatified two martyred priests who opposed Nazism and praised Catholics who kept ...
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WRAP British Prime Minister Blair arrives for meeting with Berlusconi, also meets President
1. Wide shot plane taxiing on runway
2. British flag on Prime Ministerial plane
3. British Prime Minister Tony Blair descending from plane, shakes hands with officials
4. Wide shot plane on tarmac
5. Blair walks into airport terminal...
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CUBA: HAVANA: STAGE SET FOR THE ARRIVAL OF POPE JOHN PAUL II
Natural Sound
The stage is set, the world is waiting for the moment the Pope shakes hands with Fidel Castro on Cuban soil.
It will be a snapshot indelibly inked on late 20th century history - the question now is how or if it will...
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Italy/Vatican-Pope And Orthodox Christian Leaders
Vatican City Natural Sound Duration: 1.52"
The leader of the world's Roman Catholics and the leader of the world's Orthodox Christians have agreed that their separated churches should heal past wounds and seek greater unity...
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Mass for Pope in capital's largest Catholic cathedral
1. Tilt up to exterior of Xuan Wu Men Cathedral
2. Close up of cross
3. Tilt down of Sunday mass
4. Wide shot of holy communion
5. People taking communion
6. Catholics queueing to take communion
7. Side shot of woman praying in front of...
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Vatican tailors apply final touches to outfits of new cardinals
23 March 2006
Rome
1. Nun leaving Gammarelli ecclesiastical tailor shop
2. Friar leaving tailor shop, red cape known as "mozzetta" seen through shop window
3. Cardinals red hat known as biretta and red skull cap
4. Tilt up of red cape...
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USA: FLORIDA: BAD WEATHER REDUCES SIZE OF CUBAN EXILE GROUP'S PROTEST
Spanish/Eng/Nat
Bad weather forced a Cuban exile group to trim its protest plans on Friday.
The Miami-based group had intended to stage a large-scale protest off Cuba's coast on Saturday, to draw attention to the human rights record of...
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WEST BANK: BETHLEHEM: POPE JOHN PAUL II - MASS WRAP (2)
Arabic/Eng/Nat
Pope John Paul the Second on Wednesday celebrated a joyous open-air Mass with a crowd of thousands in Bethlehem's Manger Square, before praying at the altar in the Church of the Nativity.
During Wednesday's two-hour Mass,...
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Pope Tour - Mexico, Poland, Turkey
Pope Tour - Mexico
Titles
Pope John Paul II in stetson sunhat waving at crowds from motorcade
Pope waving at crowds from platform
Pope Tour - Poland
Titles
WS Platform in crowded square
Pope waving and walking through crowds...
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Vox pop reactions in Times Square to Pope''s condition
1. Wide shot Times Square
2. Close-up news ticker with information about Pope
3. Close-up another news ticker with information about Pope
4. Medium shot people walking
5. SOUNDBITE (English): Annie Krenpa, from Grand Rapids,...
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Dominican official says Polish priest was not a spy
1. Various exteriors of Vatican and St. Peter's Square
2. Reverend Maciej Zieba talking to journalists
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Reverend Maciej Zieba, Head of Dominican Order in Poland:
"In my opinion it was not an "aware collaboration",...
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Italy/Vatican-Pope gives audience to Boris Yeltsin
Russian President Boris Yeltsin visited Pope John Paul II at the
Vatican on Tuesday (10/2) during an official visit to Italy.
Yeltsin's audience with the pope was significant because of the
Russian president's role as mediator in the...
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ENTERTAINMENT DAILY: ENT5- BONO AT UN
English/Nat
U2 lead singer BONO arrived at the United Nations on Thursday (Sept 8) to hand deliver a massive petition demanding the cancelation of the crippling debts of the world's poorest countries.
The Irish pop star handed the UN...
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CHINA: CHINESE CATHOLIC CHURCH CRITICISES VATICAN LINKS WITH TAIWAN
Mandarin/Nat
The official Chinese Catholic Church has said relations between Beijing and Rome will improve only after the Vatican ends its diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
The statement was made on Monday in response to the Vatican's...
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Mexican cardinal optimistic about Pope''s health
Rome
1. Exterior of Cardinal Barragan''s office
2. Sign reading: Pontifical Council of the Pastor for Health Workers
3. Interior, entrance to Barragan''s office
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Cardinal Javier Lozano Jose Barragan, Mexican...
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WRAP Pope in synagogue, adds Holocaust-related soundbites
1. Pope Benedict XVI with hands folded during Hebrew prayers before the synagogue''s Holocaust memorial
2. Wide shot pope entering synagogue
3. Mid shot pope seated, with cantor singing
4. Mid shot audience
5. SOUNDBITE (German) Pope...
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Poles react to election of John Paul II's successor
1. Exterior of residence where Pope John Paul II lived while in Krakow, with yellow and white flags to mark the end of mourning
2. Various of people gathered outside residence
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Vox pop, no name available:
"I really...
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Papal envoy meets US Secretary of State
1. Papal envoy Cardinal Pio Laghi and US Secretary of State Colin Powell walk through doors and shake hands,
2. Laghi walking out of State Department and towards his waiting car
3. Laghi getting into car
4. Car pulling away from State...
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Italy - Pope undergoes operation
The surgery that Pope John Paul II underwent early on Tuesday (8/10) for an inflamed appendix appears to have gone well, with no complications.
Pilgrims walking away from St.Peter's Cathedral;
VS of mass in progress, with guitar playing...