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Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, 88 (1923 - 2012)
MARYCLAIRE DALE, The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Church leaders called on parishioners Wednesday to pray for the soul of retired Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, who led them for more than 15 years but was also an uncharged central figure in a child sex-abuse case that involves the alleged shuffling of predator priests. Bevilacqua, who was 88, died in his sleep at St. Charles...
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Jerzy Kluger, 90 (2011)
FRANCES D'EMILIO, The Associated Press ROME (AP) — Jerzy Kluger, a Polish-born Jew who was a lifetime friend and childhood playmate of the late Pope John Paul II and who lost much of his family to Nazi death camps, has died in a Rome clinic, his widow said Monday. He was 90. Irene Kluger told The Associated Press that her husband died on Dec. 31 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease...
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Cardinal John Foley, 76 (1935 - 2011)
MATT MOORE, The Associated PressPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Cardinal John Foley, who for 25 years was the voice for American viewers of the Vatican's Christmas Midnight Mass and who led an ancient Catholic order in the Holy Land, died Sunday. He was 76.Foley died at the Villa St. Joseph in suburban Darby, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia said. The cause of death was not given.In 1984, Foley was...
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Swami Bhaktipada, 74 (1937 - 2011)
VICKI SMITH, The Associated Press MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Swami Bhaktipada, who built a massive farm community and a Palace of Gold that became the crown jewel of the U.S. Hare Krishna movement before scandals and criminal charges led to his downfall, died Monday in India, his biographer said. He was 74. Bhaktipada had been hospitalized in July in Thane, India, with a collapsed lung and...
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Hanan Porat, 67 (1943 - 2011)
The Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Hanan Porat, a driving force behind Israel's settlement of the West Bank, died Monday of cancer. He was 67. Porat, a former Israeli lawmaker, was a founder of the now-defunct movement Gush Emunim — Hebrew for "the bloc of the faithful" — a messianic movement is committed to settling land Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war. Followers...
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Philip Matthew Hannan, 98 (1913 - 2011)
MARY FOSTER, The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Philip Matthew Hannan, the former New Orleans archbishop who sought to console a grieving nation with his eulogy for John F. Kennedy and who...
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Bishop Walter C. Righter, 87 (1923 - 2011)
The Associated PressPITTSBURGH (AP) — Retired Episcopal Bishop Walter C. Righter, an early defender of gay rights in the church who was accused of heresy when he ordained a gay deacon in 1990, has...
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Rev. Howard Creecy, Jr., 57 (2011)
ERRIN HAINES, The Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Rev. Howard Creecy Jr., has died seven months after taking office, the...
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Archbishop Pietro Sambi, 73 (1938 - 2011)
The Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The papal ambassador to the United States Archbishop Pietro Sambi, who helped bring about a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and clerical sex abuse...
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Rev. John Stott, 90 (1921 - 2011)
GREGORY KATZ, The Associated PressLONDON (AP) — The Rev. John Stott, who led a resurgence of evangelicalism in Britain and went on to become one of the most influential evangelical thinkers of the...
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Cardinal Virgilio Noe, 89 (1922 - 2011)
The Associated PressVATICAN CITY (AP) — An Italian cardinal who once was in charge of the physical upkeep of St. Peter's Basilica and was a former master of pontifical ceremonies has died at the...
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Archbishop Pedro Meurice, 79 (2011)
The Associated PressMIAMI (AP) — Archbishop Pedro Meurice, Archbishop Emeritus of Santiago de Cuba, has died at a Miami hospital. He was 79.The Archdiocese of Miami reports that Meurice died...
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Cardinal Kazimierz Swiatek, 96 (1914 - 2011)
The Associated PressMINSK, Belarus (AP) — Cardinal Kazimierz Swiatek, the former leader of the Catholic Church in Belarus who survived a Soviet death sentence and nearly a decade in the Gulag, has...
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Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky, 75 (1936 - 2011)
The Associated PressBERLIN (AP) — Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky, who stepped down as the Berlin's archbishop earlier this year, has died. He was 75.The Berlin archdiocese said Sterzinsky died early...
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Rev. Dr. Michael Wenning, 75 (1935 - 2011)
The Associated Press MISSION VIEJO, Calif. (AP) — The Rev. Michael Wenning, who was Ronald and Nancy Reagan's longtime pastor at Los Angeles' Bel Air Presbyterian Church and presided over the...
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Julian and Adrian Riester, 92 (1919 - 2011)
CAROLYN THOMPSON, The Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Identical twins Julian and Adrian Riester were born seconds apart 92 years ago. They died hours apart this week. The Buffalo-born...
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Rev. David Wilkerson, 79 (1931 - 2011)
TERRY WALLACE, The Associated PressDALLAS, Texas (AP) — Rev. David Wilkerson, founding pastor of Times Square Church in New York City and author of the best-selling book, "The Cross and the...
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Sathya Sai Baba, 86 (1926 - 2011)
AIJAZ RAHI, The Associated Press PUTTAPARTI, India (AP) — Hindu guru Sathya Sai Baba, revered by millions worldwide, died after nearly a month of hospital treatment near his southern Indian...
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Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil, 83 (1927 - 2011)
The Associated PressVATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI is mourning the death of Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil, a leader of the church in India who battled for the rights of Christian minorities...
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Vimbeni Shembe (2011)
DONNA BRYSON, The Associated PressJOHANNESBURG (AP) — Vimbeni Shembe, a leader of a major but divided South African church, died Monday. He was 77.President Jacob Zuma, who announced Shembe's death...
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Jose Comblin (2011)
The Associated PressRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The renowned theologian Jose Comblin has died in Brazil of natural causes.The Catholic Church in Brazil announced that Comblin died Sunday at a hospital in...
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Rev. Peter J. Gomes, 68 (1942 - 2011)
The Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — The Rev. Peter J. Gomes, a nationally influential Baptist minister and advocate for tolerance who oversaw Harvard University's Memorial Church for...
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Derek Rawcliffe, 89 (1921 - 2011)
The Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Derek Rawcliffe, the first Church of England bishop to be open about his homosexuality, has died. He was 89. St. Aidan's Church in Leeds, which will...
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Bartolomeu Valeriu Anania, 89 (1921 - 2011)
The Associated PressCLUJ, Romania (AP) — The church says a senior Orthodox bishop who was imprisoned by the Communists and decades later narrowly missed out on being elected the leader of the...
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Samuel Ruiz , 86 (1924 - 2011)
MANUEL DE LA CRUZ, The Associated Press SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico (AP) — Retired Bishop Samuel Ruiz, a staunch defender of Indian rights who served a mediator in peace talks between the...
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Cardinal Michele Giordano, 80 (1930 - 2010)
The Associated PressROME (AP) — Retired Naples Cardinal Michele Giordano, the highest ranking church official to ever stand trial in Italy, has died at the age of 80.Church officials say he was...
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MaLinda Sapp (2010)
The Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — Gospel singer Marvin Sapp is mourning the death of his wife and manager, MaLinda Sapp.His record label, Verity Records, said she died Thursday after a fight with...
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Henryk Jankowski, 73 (1936 - 2010)
VANESSA GERA, The Associated PressWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Henryk Jankowski, a Polish priest who gained prominence in the 1980s by supporting Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement but who later saw his...
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Serigne Bara Falilou Mbacke (2010)
SADIBOU MARONE, The Associated PressDAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The spiritual chief of Senegal, who assumed leadership of the West African nation's most powerful Muslim brotherhood three years ago, has...
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Mordechai Eliyahu, 82 (1928 - 2010)
The Associated Press JERUSALEM A former chief rabbi who encouraged Israelis to oppose removal of settlements and blamed Reform Jewry for the Holocaust died Monday, a Jerusalem hospital said. He...
