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Radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada, who was arrested in Britain last week, appeared in court on Wednesday as a probe got under way after a report in The Sun newspaper that Qatada planned to flee Britain to Lebanon. The Sun said it had obtained an audio recording in which Islamist preacher Omar Bakri, seen in 2005, suggested from Lebanon that Qatada could be smuggled out of the country.(AFP/File/Joseph Barrak)AP - Radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada ? once described as Osama bin Laden's ambassador in Europe ? was ordered jailed Tuesday by a British judge because of fears he was preparing to abscond.


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The Cathedral of St. John Divine in New York is seen following a Service of Rededication celebrating the reopening of the entire 601-foot-long interior, Sunday Nov. 30, 2008. More than 5 years were spent in the cleaning and restoration of the space because of a six-alarm fire that destroyed the Cathedral's north transept in 2001. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)AP - African drums boomed and pipe organ music swelled as the Cathedral of St. John the Divine opened for worship Sunday after years of cleanup from a fire that struck the world's largest Gothic cathedral in 2001.


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AP - An Egyptian-born writer who renounced Islam and was baptized by Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday that he has formed a political party that would enter candidates in next year's EU elections.

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Deacon Miguel Angel Ortiz gives a bible translated into several languages to Cuba's President Raul Castro during the beatification ceremony of the first Cuban citizen, nineteenth-century priest Jose Olallo in Camaguey November 29, 2008. (Enrique De La Osa/Reuters)Reuters - Cuban President Raul Castro attended a ceremony for the country's first religious beatification on Saturday in another sign of warming relations between the Communist-ruled island and the Catholic Church.


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U.S. national Andreina Varagona, a guest at the Oberoi Trident hotel who was shot in the shoulder by the terrorists holed up inside the hotel shares a moment with her husband Santos  in a hospital in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008. A 60-hour terror rampage that killed at least 195 people across India's financial capital ended Saturday when commandos killed the last three gunmen inside a luxury hotel while it was engulfed in flames. (AP Photo)AP - Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his wife worked tirelessly after they landed in India to run a Jewish outreach center, serving homemade kosher meals to their many guests and strengthening their connection with God.


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Reuters - A Brooklyn-based rabbi and his wife who were killed in the siege on a Jewish center in Mumbai had gone to serve Jews living far from their roots, fearing only that he would not be able to help as many as possible.

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Smoke billows from a room in Taj Hotel after a gun fire prior to a gun battle in Mumbai November 28, 2008. (Arko Datta/Reuters)Reuters - Commandos stormed a Jewish center and a luxury hotel in Mumbai on Friday to retake them from Islamist militants on the third day of attacks on the Indian financial capital in which at least 130 people have died.


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Pope Benedict XVI, right, and Catholicos Aram I, the spiritual head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, arrive  for the weekly general audience at the Vatican, Wednesday  Nov. 26, 2008.  (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)AP - Pope Benedict XVI may visit the Holy Land next year, the Vatican spokesman said Thursday.


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Veronica Lewis, far right, hugs President-elect Barack Obama, as, from left, Michelle Obama, daughters Sasha, 7, and Malia, 10, look on as they handed out supplies and greeted people at a food bank at St. Columbanus Catholic Church on the South Side of Chicago, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President-elect Barack Obama and his wife took their daughters to work at a food bank on the day before Thanksgiving, saying they wanted to show the girls the meaning of the holiday, especially when so many people are struggling.


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The Stations of the Cross are brass plaques that line the walk way as the graves of the Monks at Mepkin Abbey are marked the white crosses in Moncks Corner, S.C. Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008.(AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)AP - Nearly two years ago, the quiet lives of Trappist monks in South Carolina were disrupted by accusations they were mistreating chickens in their egg business. The monks say they did nothing wrong but now, because of the glare of publicity, are turning to new ways to earn their daily bread.


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AP - Complaints have led to the removal of an atheist group's "Imagine No Religion" billboard in this San Bernardino County city.

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Joseph Pallipurath, left, appears in a Walton County courtroom for an extradition hearing Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2008, in Monroe, Ga. Pallipurath was arrested at a motel last night in Monroe for allegedly killing his estranged wife and another man during a church service in New Jersey two days ago. Pallipurath, of Sacramento, is suspected of shooting and killing 24-year-old Reshma James inside the St. Thomas Syrian Orthodox Knanaya Church in Clifton, a suburb about 15 miles west of Manhattan. Also killed was Dennis John Mallosseril, who maintained the church's Web site. Witnesses said he had tried to intervene and break up the church rampage. (AP Photo/John Amis)AP - A man accused of gunning down his estranged wife and a man in a New Jersey church told authorities Tuesday in a videotaped confession that he would've killed everyone in the building if he'd had a machine gun, a Georgia prosecutor said.


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