• There will be no official inauguration (it is Holy Year after all), nor any restrictions on children and teenagers whose entry will be left to the discretion of their parents or teachers.

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  • At the end of February, in the Ciociaria, his home region south of Rome, he addressed the dioceses of Sora, Aquino and Pontecorvo on cultural, economic and socio-political petitions and commitments for the Holy Year.

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  • In the context of Christmas and the Holy Year of Redemption, I was able to meet with the person that you all know by name, Ali Agca, who in the year 1981 on 13 May made an attempt on my life.

    BBC: The Pope has strong views on a number of issues

  • The country is keen to welcome the legions of Christian tourists that flood to the Holy Lands every year.

    ECONOMIST: The pope reaches Israel in his tour of the Middle East

  • Won all five starts last year, ran second in Holy Bull in only 3-year-old start.

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  • That leaves independents, the highly coveted voting bloc that is the holy grail of election year politics.

    CNN: Voters sick of health care debate

  • Every year on Holy Saturday (the Saturday before Easter), the local parish priest lights a fire on the Hill of Slane in Patrick's honour.

    BBC: Who was the real St Patrick?

  • In the federal government's successful prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation last year on terrorism financing conspiracy charges, the U.S. Attorney's office introduced into evidence an internal Brotherhood strategy memorandum that included an attached list of groups which were identified as "associated or friendly" organizations.

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  • While quarterbacks Gary Nova and Chas Dodd are back, Flood has hopes for Chris Laviano, a four-year starter for Holy Trinity on Long Island.

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  • We, in the city, hold a short service every year on 25 May in Holy Trinity Church.

    BBC: HMS Coventry

  • "I'm just completely devastated because the teachers know us, this is a good school, and we feel safe here, " said Lisa Colon, 41 years old, as she dropped off her 5-year-old son at Holy Spirit School in the Bronx, which is slated to close.

    WSJ: Archdiocese to Close 24 Catholic Schools

  • Interestingly enough, it appears that the bestselling book in Norway last year was none other than the Holy Bible.

    FORBES: The Bible Was Norway's Bestselling Book In 2011

  • Dark fantasy Holy Motors, which divided critics at Cannes last year, also received nine nominations, including best film and best actor (Denis Lavant).

    BBC: Emmanuelle Riva

  • Last year, the Pope sent his first tweet last year from a Vatican account to launch the Holy See's news information portal.

    BBC: Vatican unveils Pope's Twitter account @pontifex

  • Torn between this unorthodox faith and a more conventionally ascetic spirituality, Rasputin set off on foot on a two-year pilgrimage around Russia and then to the Holy Land, pushing himself to the brink of starvation and sanity.

    ECONOMIST: Ra-Ra-Rasputin

  • But since the start of the war, Iraqis every year brace for an uptick in violence during the holy month.

    CNN: Iraqi violence overshadows start of Ramadan

  • According to the AFP news agency, McDonald's will open the outlet in the middle of next year, near the Golden Temple in the Sikh holy city of Amritsar in northern India.

    BBC: McDonald's opens vegetarian-only restaurant

  • The Holy Father's first visit to Poland in 1979, a year after becoming Pope, was widely credited with galvanising opposition to the country's Communist government.

    BBC: Pope pleads for peace and mercy

  • President Obama said that this year was particularly special for him because he visited the Holy Land just before Easter, including the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem.

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  • Not long ago, when Israel still officially insisted on eternal rule, Israelis and Palestinians began to sketch the outlines of the compromise twin municipalities, the fudging of sovereignty over the holy places that Ehud Barak put to Yasser Arafat last year at Camp David.

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  • Another year of observations, better computer models and the Holy Grail of ice scientists maps of the thickness of the ice from a new European satellite called -Cryosat-2 should reveal in 2010 how long the Arctic ice has left.

    ECONOMIST: An imminent answer to an Arctic riddle

  • For Muslims the holy month of fasting and prayer is the ninth month of the Muslim calendar year.

    FORBES: The Astronomy of Ramadan

  • He is a holy fool, a young escaped convict inspired by the 2, 000-year-old philosophy of the Stoics, which he garners from a mutilated volume of Epictetus.

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  • Doctors at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center initially worked to save the life of the 5-year-old boy, who underwent more than six hours of surgery for abdominal wounds.

    CNN: shooting

  • The three-hundred-year-old Dog of Ageless Wonder, which Tibetan monks treat as holy, is kidnapped by agents of an American pharmaceutical company, where a craven scientist (Robert Downey, Jr.) is seeking the serum of eternal youth, but a teen-age animal-rights activist, Carly (Zena Grey), springs the dog from the lab and brings it home to her family.

    NEWYORKER: The Shaggy Dog

  • Last year, the Pope sent his first tweet from a Vatican account to launch the Holy See's news information portal.

    BBC: Pope starts tweeting as @pontifex, blesses followers

  • He added that it could also help achieve the holy grail of space exploration: missions that send astronauts out of orbit for more than a year.

    NPR: Space Station To Get $18 Million Balloon-Like Room

  • The 61-year-old lives in the heart of Silicon Valley, and he worked at that holy grail of computers, Apple.

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  • It was also the year the leaders of Ireland's four main churches made a joint visit to the Holy Land.

    BBC: Religion stories making the headlines

  • We got together last year to think how we could help rural communities of all three faiths in the land we all consider holy.

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