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VOICED : Papa defiende en Turquia union con ortodoxos
VOICED : Papa defiende en Turquia union con ortodoxos
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CLEAN: Religious fervor in UkraineÕs chilly waters
CLEAN: Religious fervor in UkraineÕs chilly waters
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VOICED: Religious fervor in UkraineÕs chilly waters
VOICED: Religious fervor in UkraineÕs chilly waters
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CLEAN : Supporters rally over Russian cathedral handover
Crowds gather in front of St. Isaac's Cathedral in Saint Petersburg in support of the handover of the religious site to the Orthodox Church after decades as a museum
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CLEAN : Preaching from behind barbed wire in Kosovo's north
In the Albanian part of Kosovo's northern city of Mitrovica still sharply divided along ethnic lines Orthodox priest Father Nenad Stojanovic is waiting for the day when he will celebrate Sunday Mass without police protection or barbed wire
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CLEAN : Moscow unveils statue to Kalashnikov founder of the AK-47
Russian officials and Orthodox priests unveils a statue in Moscow of inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov whose iconic AK-47 assault rifle has claimed countless lives worldwide
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CLEAN : Orthodox Ethiopians criticise Abiy's response to clashes
Ethiopia's influential Orthodox church criticises Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's response to violence that left more than 60 dead last week saying he was failing to protect its members (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Santa Claus floats to Tel Aviv on his standup paddleboard
Harout Torossian an Israeli lifeguard from the Armenian Orthodox Christian minority dressed up as Santa Claus standup paddleboards along a beach in the Mediterranean coastal Israeli city of Tel Aviv as Christians around the world prepare...
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CLEAN : The Christian December dish nothing to do with Christmas
Stirring a giant vat Palestinian Christian Maryam Salem prepares a special dish for the festive season (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Georgia: hundreds of people turn up for mass baptism
Hundreds of children are baptised at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi as the latest godchildren of the head of Georgia's Orthodox Church who offered in 2008 to become godfather to every third child born to a family (Footage by AFPTV...
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CLEAN : Greeks plunge into cold water to celebrate Epiphany
Greeks brave cold weather and plundge into the sea to retrieve a wooden cross during the traditional blessing of water marking the Orthodox Epiphany Day in Athens (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Bulgarians mark Epiphany with icy dance believed to bring good health
Hundreds of people gather in the central Bulgarian town of Kalofer to mark the Epiphany with a dance in the Tundzha river's ice cold waters (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Montenegro needs its own Orthodox church says president
Montenegro needs its own Orthodox church to cement its identity and ward off Serb nationalism President Milo Djukanovic tells AFP (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Coronavirus: Russian Orthodox believers kiss relics
Russian Orthodox believers kiss the relics of John the Baptist in the Kazan Cathedral in central Saint Petersburg despite health advisories issued to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Coronavirus: Cyprus celebrates Orthodox Palm Sunday under lockdown
Greek Orthodox churches celebrate Palm Sunday without a congregation in the old city of the capital Nicosia, after Cyprus prohibited participation in religious celebrations due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic (Footage by AFPTV via...
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CLEAN : Lebanese Greek Orthodox celebrate Easter amid COVID-19 lockdown
Lebanese Greek Orthodox celebrate Easter Sunday during a mass at the Saint George Church in downtown capital Beirut, without congregation due to the COVID-19 pandemic (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Orthodox worshippers pass on Holy Fire in Bethlehem amid COVID-19 pandemic
Orthodox worshippers light their candles from the Holy Fire lit in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre during a crowdless ceremony in the courtyard of the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem amid the coronavirus...
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CLEAN : Romania priests, volunteers deliver Holy Light to stay-at-home worshippers
Priests and volunteers in Romania deliver the Holy Light from door to door during the Orthodox Easter as people are not allowed to attend church because of the restrictions enforced due to the novel coronavirus (Footage by AFPTV via...
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CLEAN : Bulgarians celebrate Orthodox Easter at an open air service
Bulgarians celebrate Orthodox Christian Easter at an open air service outside the Alexander Nevski cathedral in downtown Sofia, led by Patriarch Neophyte under strict health safety measures with believers observing their distance and...
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CLEAN : Coronavirus: Belarusian Orthodox believers have their food blessed despite pandemic
Dozens of Orthodox believers gather before Minsk's churches to have their Easter food blessed by holy water. Svetlana, an 81-year-old pensioner says "it might help" to fight the coronavirus (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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VOICED : Un sacerdote ortodoxo herido por bala en ciudad francesa de Lyon
Un sacerdote ortodoxo de nacionalidad griega fue tiroteado con una escopeta de cañones recortados el sábado en Lyon , en el suroeste de Francia (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Ethiopian refugees attend Sunday Mass near Um Raquba camp
Ethiopian refugees who fled the Tigray conflict attend Sunday Mass with local believers, at an Ethiopian Orthodox church building built by former Ethiopian refugees, at the village next to Um Raquba refugee camp in Gedaref, eastern Sudan...
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CLEAN : Ethiopia's Tigrayans recount massacre by Eritrean troops
On November 30 last year, Eritrean soldiers massacred 164 civilians in the town of Dengolat in Ethiopia's Tigray region, one day after a major Orthodox Christian holiday (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)