Pope calls for hostages' release
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John Paul II appeals for the release of two French journalists being held hostage in Iraq.
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FOUR Iraqi religious leaders, including two imams, appealed today for the release of four aid workers - two Italians and two Iraqis - who were taken hostage in Baghdad overnight.
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French President Jacques Chirac has made new pleas for the freedom of two hostages on the 100th day of their captivity in Iraq. Chirac appealed to the captors to choose &quot;the
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France's government and leaders of its Muslim minority urged Iraqi militants Sunday to free two French journalists they were holding hostage in a bid to force Paris to revoke its ban on Muslim headscarves in schools.
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Muslim and Christian religious leaders in the hometown of a British hostage facing death in Iraq have appealed for his captors to free him.
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Visiting French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier on Monday called for the release of two French journalists taken hostages in Iraq.
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Iraq's interim President Ghazi al-Yawar vowed Friday to do all he could to obtain the release of two Italian women aid workers held hostage, as Muslim leaders in Rome recorded prayers on their behalf.
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DOHA: Qatar yesterday expresed sympathy with Italy and joined its leaders in calling for the release of two Italian women held hostage by kidnappers in Iraq.
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Pope John Paul appealed yesterday for the release of the French and other hostages in Iraq, saying human beings could not be treated like merchandise.
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Two French journalists held hostage by Islamic militants in Iraq appealed late Monday for their countrymen and president to save their lives by giving in to their captors' demand to rescind a ban on Muslim head scarves in French schools.
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An Italian priest held captive for over a month in the southern Philippines wants to return to his parish there after his Muslim rebel captors assured him he would not be seized again.
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MOSUL/VATICAN CITY  - The Iraqi Catholic  archbishop of Mosul was kidnapped at gunpoint on Monday and the  Vatican demanded his quick release and deplored what it branded  an act of terrorism.
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TENS of thousands of people joined in a torchlit procession through the Italian capital overnight to call for the release of two women aid workers held hostage in Iraq.
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The Turkish man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 released a cryptic statement Thursday wishing the hospitalized pontiff a speedy recovery and urging him to tell the world that its end was near.
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French President Jacques Chirac issued a new appeal for the liberation of two French hostages held by militants in Iraq.
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France demanded Islamic militants release two journalists held hostage in Iraq on Sunday and defended the ban on Muslim headscarves in school the kidnappers want revoked.
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The aid charity Care International has appealed to the captors of its Iraq director Margaret Hassan to release her.