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Pope willing to consider allowing women deacons
Pope Francis said on Thursday he was willing to create a commission to study whether women could be deacons in the Catholic Church, signaling openness to letting women serve in ordained ministry currently reserved to men.Francis agreed...
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Church holds services in local bar
1. Tight shot of hand lighting candles
2. Mid shot of woman reading from the Bible behind lit candles
3. Mid shot of people listening while Bar Church Organiser Chris Fletcher looks at Bible
4. Wide shot of people gathered around table...
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Pakistani students learn Mandarin to improve job prospects
LEADIN
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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Pakistani students learn Mandarin to improve job prospects
LEADIN
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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Abuse victims urge action as bishops meet to pray
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Abuse victims urge action as bishops meet to pray
As U.S.-based Roman Catholic bishops are meeting outside Chicago on the church sexual abuse scandal, many are dismayed that it has taken so long for the church leadership to meet and act after so many years.
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Bishop expelled by Argentina for holocaust denial arrives in UK
1. Various of Roman Catholic Bishop Richard Williamson arriving at Heathrow Airport, being guided through media scrum by police
A British bishop whose denial of the Holocaust led Argentina to expel him arrived in London on...
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RR0139/A Pakistan: Taleban
Peshawar: various of Muslim students praying and reading Koran at madrassa or Islamic school; Maulana Fayaz ur Rehman, a provincial leader of Jammiat-e-Ulema Islam- the Party of Islamic Scholars
or Clerics; Rehman Urdu sot; various of...
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WRAP Officials say 'hundreds' of children sick with suspected flu, Bloomberg, school
AP Television
1. Pull out of exterior of The Robin Sue Ward School for Exceptional Children (Public School 177), in Queens
2. City health worker carrying supplies from van into school
3. Close-up of sign on van, reading: (English) "The...
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WRAP Nine dead in shooting at radical mosque, aftermath
1. Wide of women seminary students running, as smoke rises in background AUDIO: Gun fire
2. Mid of police vehicle, clouds of tear gas come into shot and obscure vehicle
3. Women and children running
4. Wide pan of female students on...
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Reaction to Musharraf's speech by Islamic groups
Islamabad, January 12 2002
1. People watching Musharraf's address on TV
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox Pop:
"I think the President has made the right approach. It's needed today that root out all sorts of terrorism and extremism in our...
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Newly appointed Catholic Archbishop of NYC celebrates Mass, presser
1. Wide news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Cardinal Edward Egan:
"The Holy Father has chosen well, and he has and here he is now, the next Archbishop of New York, Archbishop Timothy Dolan."
3. Mid of photographers
4. SOUNDBITE...
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PAKISTAN: KARACHI: 2 BOMBS INJURE 11 PEOPLE
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Two bombs have injured 11 people, mostly students, in Karachi in southern Pakistan in an apparent attack on a Sunni Muslim religious school.
Minutes after the first bomb exploded outside the Ashraf-ul-Madaris school, a...
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Seminary closed in 1971 but kept in pristine condition so it could reopen any time
Since it was shut down 43 years ago, one of the Orthodox Church's preeminent seminaries has been waiting to re-open its doors to educate future clergy.
The Theological School of Halki - built on an island in the Adalar district of...
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Efforts to curb religious extremism at madrassas
1. Wide of entrance to a madrassa (Islamic religious school)
2. Sign reading in English: Jawahirul Uloom Madrassa
3. Various of children arriving at the madrassa
4. Boy carrying a Quran
5. Students inside classroom before classes...
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Curfew lifted after sectarian clashes between Shiite and Sunni Muslims killed 10 people
The government lifted a curfew in the garrison city of Rawalpindi on Monday that was imposed after sectarian clashes between Shiite and Sunni Muslims on Friday in which 10 people were killed.
The clashes ignited as hundreds of Shiites...
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Fourteen-year-old would-be suicide bomber released
FILE: Recent
1. Exterior of Presidential Palace
15 July 2007
2. Wide, Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, with would-be suicide bomber Rafiq Ullah, boy's father Mati Ullah and others
3. Officials watching
4. SOUNDBITE: (Pashto) Hamid Karzai,...
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Israeli barber makes "magic kippa" out of hair
In the wake of the attack on a Jewish supermarket in Paris and other acts of anti-semitism, an Israeli hairdresser has decided to invent an invisible skullcap.
The skullcap, or kippa, is made of real hair so it's invisible to the...
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Moderate candidates campaign from a distance amid fears of Taliban attack
Peshawar - 17 April 2013
1. Mid of Pakistani politician Mian Iftikhar Hussain from the Awami National Party (ANP), looking at computer monitor showing a documentary of his only son who was gunned down by Taliban militants
2. Close of...
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Profile of Red Mosque cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi
AP Television
FILE: Islamabad, 6 April 2007
1. Wide of traffic passing in front of Lal Masjid (Red Mosque)
2. Students on rooftop lookout position
3. Wide of people at prayer
4. Close of child inside mosque as men bow to pray
5. Various...
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Fmr student claims abuse by priest in 1970s; abuse hotline
1. Klaus Fluch, self-described victim of abuse, sitting at table and looking through photographs
2. Close-up of photograph of Fluch aged 13
3. SOUNDBITE: (German) Klaus Fluch, self-described victim of clerical sexual abuse:
"What I...
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ISRAEL: ORTHODOX EASTER SUNDAY CELEBRATIONS
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Thousands of Christian pilgrims celebrated the orthodox Easter Sunday in Jerusalem today. A special service was held in the ancient Church of the Holy Sepulchre to mark the religious feast.
The 12th century basilica...
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HUNGARY: BUDAPEST: HANUKKAH CELEBRATIONS
Hungarian/Nat
Almost half a decade after the holocaust, Hungary's Jewish community is the strongest it has been in years.
Many aren't afraid to declare their Jewish religion, instead of living a life of secrecy which at one time was...
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Holocaust-denying bishop told to leave country or face expulsion
La Reja, Buenos Aires Province
1. Wide shot of seminary where Bishop Richard Williamson worked
2. Zoom into entrance to seminary
3. Priest Alvaro Calderon walks towards camera
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Alvaro Calderon, Priest:
"I don't...