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Israel/Palestine - Palestinians clash with Israeli troops in West Bank / Hamas-Fatah friction / Jewish seminary killings / Air-strikes / Palestinians floof over Egyptian border
West Bank - Palestinians clash with troops as Israel continues military operation
Nablus - 5 Jan 2008
1. Wide of soldier throwing gas canister across street
2. Soldier firing stun grenade from behind army vehicle
3. Palestinians throwing...
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USA: VATICAN'S WW II ARCHIVE MATERIAL STUDIED
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A scholarly team of Catholics and Jews has met for the first time in New York to study the Vatican's published World War II archival material.
The group was appointed by the Holy See and the international Jewish community to...
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Christians feel under siege in divided America
In a divided America, even in a deeply religious swath of western Kentucky - a state where about half the residents are evangelical - conservative Christians feel under siege.For decades, they say, they have been steadily pushed to the...
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Pakistani Students Learn Mandarin to Land Jobs
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Thousands of Chinese workers have moved to Pakistan to work on projects bank-rolled to the tune of billions of dollars by China.
Now a growing number of locals are signing up for lessons in Mandarin...
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Australian sisters at Israel court hearing against woman accused of abusing them
An Israeli court entered final procedures on Tuesday in the case of a woman accused of sexually abusing her students at a Jewish religious school in Australia.
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Catholic teachers demonstrate during visit of Pope Benedict to UN
1. Various of the exterior of the New York Catholic centre
2. Banner for the Archdiocese of New York reading (English) "Through the faith we grow"
3. Various of Catholic teachers protesting
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Charles Chesnavage,...
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France, Italy look at problem of declining priest numbers
Paris, Recent
1. Wide exterior shot of Notre Dame cathedral
2. Close up of detail of the architecture
3. Two shots of priests saying mass
4. Wide shot of people attending mass
5. SOUNDBITE: (French) Arnaud Sirvin, Catholic Student:
"I...
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WRAP Army deployed, deadline, relatives, students surrendering, presser
1. Various of men surrendering to authorities after leaving radical Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque
2. Women wearing burqas from women's seminary, Jamia Hafsa, surrendering to police
3. Men surrendering
4. Various of men sitting on ground,...
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WRAP Protest over security crackdown in, plus Friday prayers
Islamabad
1. Wide of thousands-strong crowd protesting against government's latest crackdown on extremists
2. Crowd walking with banners, including one which reads "We are not involved in London bombings"
3. Crowd smashing a police...
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APTN visits religious school that teaches 3000 boys
1. Exterior of Madrassa Zamia Binaural
2. Close-up of sign board
3. Various interior with students reciting Holy Duran
4. Sign board for "Department of Foreign Students", students are sitting
5. SOUNDBITE: (English and part Arabic)...
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Reax as Vatican publishes ruling on gays joining priethood
1. Wide of Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
2. Various close-ups of the "instruction" pages reading: < Homosexuality and ordained ministry>
3. Nuns in Saint Peter's Square
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Orazio Petrosillo, Vatican...
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WRAP Police patrols at Red Mosque, protest, AP pix inside mosque
Islamabad
1. Tracking exterior of Jamia Hafsa (girl's religious school next to the mosque), with Pakistani military outside
2. Wide of Lal Masjid (Red Mosque), behind barbed wire
3. Close of damaged minaret
4. Low angle shot of...
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Soldiers at mosque, voxpops, press conference by Pakistani PM
1. Wide of soldiers on road to Lal Masjid (Red Mosque), barbed wire
2. Policeman removing barbed wire for army jeep
3. Wide of people in street after relaxing of curfew
4. Residents coming out of supermarket
5. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Saeeda...
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WRAP Protest over security crackdown, plus Friday prayers, adds more Karachi protest
Karachi
1. Wide shot of protest by MMA (Mutthida Majlis e Amal)
2. Protestors chanting slogan "Friends of US and UK are traitors"
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Mairaj ul Huda Siddiqi, MMA Karachi chief
"The crackdown on madrassas, the...
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Military faces up to practical difficulties of drafting ultra-Orthodox men
Israel was anticipating problems after the expiry of its draft law which previously granted exemption from military duty to tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews.
Many in the insular and rapidly growing community say they would rather...
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Pope sets up panel of experts to advise him on sex abuse
Pope Francis is assembling a panel of experts to advise him on sex abuse in the clergy - a task that will involve looking at how to protect children from pedophiles, how to better screen men for the priesthood, and how to help victims...
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Seminary damaged in suspected arson attack
Jerusalem - 26 February 2015
1. Greek-Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III, shaking hands with Israeli police officer
2. Theophilos III being greeted by Greek Orthodox officials
3. Exterior of Greek Orthodox seminary
4. Close...
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WRAP Update on school closures, reax to flu cases in NYC, health commissioner
1. Tilt down exterior of St. Brigid School in Brooklyn
2. Mid shot young children exiting St. Brigid School
3. Male parent wiping his eyes
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Miguel Moren, father of child at St. Brigid School:
"I mean it affects me...
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Iran Khomeini
notes: col print
location: qom, iran
title: qom - khomeini
serviced date: 03/02/79
no: 11566
date shot: 03/01/79
length: 54 ft
seconds: 1.26
sound: sof
date of arrival:
film shows: ayatollah khomeini arriving by...
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Pakistani religious schools train hardline Taliban sympathisers.
Quetta - 22 Oct 2001
1. Madrassa religious school
2. Religious students in deobandi madrassa, a radical pro-Taliban sect, providing the support base for Taliban movement
3. Various students learning Koran by heart
4. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu)...
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A Connecticut Christian seminary has the only program in the country that also teaches muslims and jews to be chaplains. AP's Bonny Ghosh visits the school that is generating interfaith controversy. (Sept. 8)
HEADLINE: Conn. Christian seminary trains Muslims, Jews
CAPTION: A Connecticut Christian seminary has the only program in the country that also teaches muslims and jews to be chaplains. AP's Bonny Ghosh visits the school that is...
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Religious schools which supply the Taliban with fighters.
1. Islamic teacher instructs pupil whilst holding gun
2. Various of Islamic pupils reciting prayers
3. Islamic teacher instructs pupil whilst holding gun
4. Teachers with guns on school roof
5. SOUNDBITE: (Pashtu) Qari Zubair, head of...
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Christmas-style items for Hannukah
A growing number of US companies are producing Christmas-style items for the Jewish festival Hanukkah.
But not everyone's happy about the apparent alignment of the winter holidays.
Oy Vey, Holidays! Does Hanukkah want to be...
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Out of hours classes engender religious tolerance
LEAD IN : Since the November Paris attacks which left 130 people dead, there has been an increase in French schoolchildren attending lessons in world religions.The free and voluntary extra-curricular classes are designed to dispel myths,...