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The Pope also denounced the terrorist attack in Nigeria and prayed for coup-hit Mali.

"Life is stronger than death. Good is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Truth is stronger than lies," the Pope told the faithful at the packed St Peter's Basilica on Saturday night.

It's Easter time, with treats and gifts and Easter Eggs! Children's await for jellybeans, chocolate eggs, and marshmallow chickens and the chocolate rabbit being their favorite. On this occasion, the National Confectioners Association (NCA) and the Statistic Brain has listed some sweet, interesting fun facts and surprising numbers revolving Easter Celebrations.

Thousands of visitors and spectators gathered there to watch the reenactment of the Biblical scene performed by more than 100 actors.

Pope Benedict XVI focused on the family as the pontiff presided over a Good Friday candlelit Way of the Cross procession at the Colosseum.

Devotees carry heavy wooden crosses, whip their backs until they bleed and re-enact the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

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Christians around the world will celebrate Palm Sunday.

The annual Land Day rally on the Checkpoint Kalandria on the West Bank turned violent today as Israeli security forces fired rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades to break up groups of Palestinian stone-throwers marching towards Jerusalem.

Elite Police in France have arrested 20 suspected Islamists and seized weapons in a series of dawn raids, which were carried out in Toulouse, Nantes, Lyon, Marseille, Paris, Nice and Le Mans.

Castro, one-time altar boy baptised into Roman Catholic Churchgreets pope in Cuba visit.

The latest stop off on Pope Benedict's 3 day Papal tour saw him visiting Cuba to meet with Cuban President Raul Castro.

The Pope sent a strong message to the Cubans asking them to build a renewed and better society.

On the last night of Pope Benedict' the XVI, three day visit to Leon in Mexico, he was serenaded by a group of Mariachi musicians.

Activists took to the streets in Mexico during the papal visit protesting against the human rights record of the Catholic Church.

The Pope will address the growing conflict among drug cartels and government forces.

Tens of thousands of mourners turned out at St Mark's Cathedral in Cairo to see the funeral of the Coptic Pope Shenouda III who died on Saturday aged 88.

The Italian branch of the Anonymous collective has taken down the official website of the Vatican again in protest against sex abuse cases involving Roman Catholic priests.

Nearly 100,000 Coptic Christians gathered in Cairo to mourn the death of Pope Shenouda III who died on Saturday.

Pope Shenouda III, head of Egypt’s Coptic Christians, died on Saturday due to health complications and old age.

The government is likely to argue that Christians do not have the right to wear the cross at work.

A look at how Jewish people celebrate what Americans refer to as 'Jewish Mardi Gras’.

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Catholic cardinal Keith O'Brien, leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland, said the government's proposal to legalise same-sex marriage is an attempt to redefine marriage.

Archeologists have claimed to have found what could be an earliest record of Christianity by uncovering a first century Jerusalem tomb, which has ancient inscriptions and an iconographic image written on Jewish ossuaries or bone boxes.

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Mahatma Gandhi has been baptised in proxy by a US church in 1996, according to Helen Radkey, a researcher.

The month of February brings with it a carnival season. Celebrations take place all around the world and people party, eat rich food and have fun, all before the season of Lent begins.

Elderly couple prove it is never too late for love.