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...

1. Tight shot of hand lighting candles

2. Mid shot of woman reading from the Bible behind lit ca
ndles
3. Mid shot of people listening while Bar Church Organiser Chris Fletcher look
s at...

LEADIN

Thousands of Chinese workers have moved to Pakistan to work on projects bank-rolled to the tune of billions of dollars by Chin
a.
...

LEADIN

Thousands of Chinese workers have moved to Pakistan to work on projects bank-rolled to the tune of billions of dollars by Chin
a.
...

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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.

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...

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;...

AP Television

1. Pull out of exterior of The Robin Sue Ward School for Exceptional Children (Public School 177), in Q
ueens
2. City health worker carrying supplies from van i
nto...

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 veh
icle...

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...

1. Wide news conference

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Cardinal Edward Eg
an:
"The Holy Father has chosen well, and he has and here he is now, the next Archbishop of New York, Archbishop Timot
hy...

Natural Sound

Two bombs have injured 11 people, mostly students, in Karachi in southern Pakistan in an apparent attack on a Sunni Muslim religious sc
hool.
Minutes after the first bomb exploded...

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...

1. Wide of entrance to a madrassa (Islamic religious school)

2. Sign reading in English: Jawahirul Uloom Mad
rassa
3. Various of children arriving at th
e madrassa
4. Boy c
arrying a...

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...

FILE: Recent

1. Exterior of Presidential P
alace
15
July 2007
2. Wide, Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, with would-be suicide bomber Rafiq Ullah, boy's father Mati U
llah and others
3
. Officials...

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,...

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...

AP Television

FILE: Islamabad, 6 April
2007
1. Wide of traffic passing in front of Lal Masjid (R
ed Mosque)
2. Students on rooftop...

1. Klaus Fluch, self-described victim of abuse, sitting at table and looking through photographs

2. Close-up of photograph of Fluch age
d 13
3. SOUNDBITE: (German) Klaus Fluch, self-described victim...

Natural Sound

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...

Hungarian/Nat

Almost half a decade after the holocaust, Hungary's Jewish community is the strongest it has been in y
ears.
Many aren't afraid to declare their Jewish religion,...

La Reja, Buenos Aires Province

1. Wide shot of seminary where Bishop Richard Williamson w
orked
2. Zoom into entrance t
o seminary
3. Priest Alvaro Calderon walks
towards camera
4....