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People react as the coffin holding the body of former Peruvian President Alan Garcia arrives at the APRA party headquarters April 18, a day after he died of a gunshot wound believed to be self-inflicted.

Peruvian archbishop urges calm after ex-president kills himself

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LIMA, Peru - The president of Peru's conference of bishops called for calm after two-time former Peruvian President Alan Garcia died April 17 after shooting himself in the head as authorities prepared to arrest him.

Father Jean-Marc Fournier, chaplain of the Paris Fire Brigade, talks with French journalists at a Paris fire station April 17, 2019. The priest led the effort to save religious artifacts from Notre Dame Cathedral during the April 15 fire.

Fire chaplain helped save religious artifacts from burning cathedral

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PARIS - A hero emerging from the Notre Dame Cathedral fire April 15 is Father Jean-Marc Fournier, chaplain of the Paris Fire Brigade, who is credited with saving a reliquary containing the crown of thorns and the Blessed Sacrament from the burning cathedral.

A reliquary containing what tradition holds is Jesus' crown of thorns is displayed during a ceremony at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris March 21, 2014. A major blaze engulfed the iconic cathedral April 15, 2019, sending pillars of flame and billowing smoke over the center of the French capital.

Notre Dame fire showed that beauty still matters, art historian says

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VATICAN CITY - As people in Paris and around the world watched in horror as flames consumed the roof of Notre Dame Cathedral, the blaze also stirred genuine emotions that could come only from witnessing the loss of beauty, art historian Elizabeth Lev said.

Firefighters inspect one of the rosette windows of Notre Dame Cathedral April 16, 2019, after a fire broke out in the iconic Paris structure. Officials said the cause was not clear, but that the April 15 blaze could be linked to renovation work.

French leaders pledge Notre Dame Cathedral again will grace Paris skyline

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PARIS - Church leaders joined government officials in saying they expect that Notre Dame Cathedral's grandeur will be restored as firefighters extinguished the last flames of a fast-moving blaze that seriously damaged much of the iconic structure.

Smoke rises around the altar inside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris as a fire continues to smolder early April 16, 2019. Officials said the cause was not clear, but that the fire could be linked to renovation work.

Hope from the ashes: President, archbishop vow to rebuild Notre Dame

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ROME - The president of France and the archbishop of Paris have vowed to rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral after a devastating fire, continuing what a professor of architecture described as the natural lifecycle of a historic building.

Flames and smoke billow from the Notre Dame Cathedral after a fire broke out in Paris April 15, 2019. Officials said the cause was not clear, but that the fire could be linked to renovation work.

Blaze erupts at Paris' iconic Notre Dame Cathedral; cause unknown

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Updated 04/15/2019

PARIS - A major blaze engulfed the iconic Notre Dame Cathedral April 15, sending pillars of flame and billowing smoke over the center of the French capital.

A group of Spanish tourists view a replica and reconstruction of the remains of a more than 3-million-year-old female hominid known as Lucy at the National Museum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Aug. 7, 2007.

Humanity's ancestors: Lucy, Toumai and the evolving journey of prehumans

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VATICAN CITY - As a follow-up to a 2013 symposium on the origin and evolution of humans, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences held a workshop discussing the latest discoveries about humanity's earliest ancestors -- where they lived and what they may have looked like millions of years ago.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, pictured in a Nov. 5, 2018 photo, says Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Catholic acquitted of blasphemy, remains in the country, negating speculation that she had already joined her family in Canada.

Pakistani prime minister tells BBC Asia Bibi has not left for Canada

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KARACHI, Pakistan - Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said Asia Bibi remains in the country, negating speculation that she had already joined her family in Canada.

Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar, India, is led away for questioning by police on the outskirts of Cochin Sept. 21, 2018. Indian police have charged Bishop Mulakkal of repeatedly raping a nun in her rural convent, the Associated Press reported April 9, 2019.

Indian police charge bishop with repeatedly raping nun

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NEW DELHI - Indian police charged Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar of repeatedly raping a nun in her rural convent, the Associated Press reported.

Mousa Kamar, front right, and his son, Youssef, far left corner, carry the large wooden cross during the Good Friday procession on the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem's Old City March 25, 2016. Mousa Kamar and his sons are carrying on the tradition of his grandfather and father, carrying the cross on Good Friday.

Family tradition: Carrying the cross on Jerusalem's Via Dolorosa

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JERUSALEM - For four decades, Mousa Kamar has taken his place at the head of the heavy wooden cross used during the Franciscan Good Friday procession on the Via Dolorosa.

The altar of Ntarama Church, where more than 5,000 people were massacred.

A hundred days in hell

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The most harrowing interview I ever did was with a man who told me in excellent French that his name was Innocent.

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