Pope meets relatives of Israeli soldiers
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Relatives seeking information on two Israeli soldiers who were seized by Hezbollah militants in northern Israel at the start of last year's Lebanon war met Wednesday with Pope Benedict XVI.
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Pope Benedict XVI has invited ambassadors from Muslim nations to meet him on Monday in a bid to calm anger over his use of a medieval text saying their religion was spread by violence.
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BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip -- An American priest and nun spent several hours yesterday at a militant's house that Israel has targeted for destruction, the first foreigners to join a weeklong standoff between Palestinian "human shields" and the Israeli Air Force.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert   recently held talks with a member of Saudi Arabia's royal   family on Middle East peace and Iran's nuclear program,   Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said on Monday.
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Muslim diplomats were meeting Monday with Pope Benedict XVI in the pontiff's latest effort to mend relations after his remarks about Islam and violence ignited the Vatican's most serious international crisis in decades.
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Pope Benedict XVI began a four-day visit to Poland to a welcome less exuberant than that given to his Polish-born predecessor John Paul II and some disappointment among the country&#039;s Jewish community.
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VATICAN CITY -- With thousands of Italians converging on Rome to decry the war in Iraq, President Bush received a more subtle but pointed message yesterday about America's Middle East policy in his first meeting with Pope Benedict XVI.
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Parents of missing four-year-old invited to Vatican for private meeting with the Pope.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank, Oct. 17 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice paid an emotional visit Wednesday to the church revered as marking the birthplace of Jesus, before hearing from prominent Palestinians that failure of her new peace initiative could worsen their conflict with Israel.
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Strumming guitars and banging bongos, Christian pilgrims journeyed to Israel&#039;s dusty border with the Gaza Strip on Thursday to offer support to Israeli troops participating in the military action.
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Israel's prime minister arrived in Rome on Wednesday for a visit that includes talks with Pope Benedict at the Vatican and meetings with Italian Premier Romano Prodi and other top officials.Comment
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Britain&#39;s outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie met Saturday with Pope Benedict XVI in a private audience at the Vatican, raising speculation he may convert to Catholicism.
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A delegation of prominent rabbis and Jewish leaders from around the world met with Pope John Paul II on Tuesday to thank him for what they called a lifelong commitment to the defense of Jews.
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Pope Benedict XVI met Saturday with the Chaldean Patriarch of Baghdad, the Vatican said.
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ASSISI, Italy -- Pope Benedict XVI made a pilgrimage to the birthplace of St. Francis yesterday, lamenting the violence in the Middle East and decrying "the illusion" that force could resolve conflicts.
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A meeting with Muslim diplomats Monday was Pope Benedict XVI's latest effort to mend relations after remarks about Islam and violence that ignited the Vatican's most serious international crisis in decades.
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Israeli and Palestinian leaders are to meet later for another session of peace negotiations in Jerusalem.