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  • June 7, 2017 - Marawi, Lanao del Sur, Philippines - Philippine troops continue to move forward to fight Islamist rebels while government troops are trying to recover other estimated 2000 civilians who are trap inside the town of Bangolo area, Marawi City in Southern Philippines, June 7, 2017. Islamist rebels together with Maute group attacked and occupied high rise buildings where all snipers are position. (Credit Image: © Richard Atrero De Guzman/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • August 15, 2017 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - Bangladeshi crime scene investigators collect evidence from a hotel after a raid on a militant hideout in Dhaka on August 15, 2017. An Islamist extremist was killed August 15 in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka after detonating a suicide vest and other explosives as police prepared to raid his hotel room, an official said. (Credit Image: © Mehedi Hasan/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • August 15, 2017 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - The boom explosion spot in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 15, 2017. A suspected militant has been killed in an operation at a hotel in Dhaka’s Panthapath area where lawmen conducted a raid suspecting a militant hideout this morning at Hotel Olio International in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Credit Image: © Str/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • January 30, 2018 - Gaza, gaza strip, Palestine - Palestinian mourners carry the body of Hamas senior leader Imad al-Alami during his funeral at the al-Omari mosque in Gaza City on January 30, 2018. A senior Hamas official has died in Gaza three weeks after shooting himself in the head in what officials described as an accident, the Palestinian Islamist group announced. Alami was wounded on January 9 while ''inspecting his personal weapon in his home'' in Gaza, Hamas said at the time. (Credit Image: © Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • June 5, 2017 - Marawi, Philippines - Displaced muslim woman offer a prayer while living in a temporary evacuation center at Provincial Capitol Complex while government troops are trying to recover other families who are left behind in the outskirts of Marawi City in southern Philippines, June 5, 2017. (Credit Image: © Richard Atrero De Guzman/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • June 10, 2017 - Toronto, ONTARIO, Canada - The words 'Strength to Manchester' painted with the colours of the United Kingdom flag in Toronto, Canada, on June 10, 2017, as a tribute to victims of the terror attack carried out by the Islamic State in Manchester, England recently. Twenty two people were killed and fifty nine people injured after a suicide bomber targeted fans leaving a concert of American singer Ariana Grande at the Manchester Arena. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the deadly attack. (Credit Image: © Creative Touch Imaging Ltd/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • June 6, 2017 - Marawi, Philippines - Government troops walk inside of a NO GO ZONE to search for explosives and firearms left be Islamic rebels in Marawi City in Southern Philippines, June 6, 2017. (Credit Image: © Richard Atrero De Guzman/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • May 23, 2017 - Toronto, ONTARIO, Canada - Toronto sign illuminated with the colours of the United Kingdom flag on May 23, 2017, in Toronto, Canada, as a tribute to victims of the terror attack carried out by the Islamic State in Manchester, England yesterday. Twenty two people were killed and fifty nine people injured after a suicide bomber targeted fans leaving a concert of American singer Ariana Grande at the Manchester Arena. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the deadly attack. (Credit Image: © Creative Touch Imaging Ltd/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • September 18, 2017 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - Supporters of the hardline Hefazat-e-Islam shout slogans as they gather for a march towards Myanmar Embassy to protest against the persecution of Rohingya Muslims, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Credit Image: © Suvra Kanti Das via ZUMA Wire)
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  • June 12, 2017 - Marawi, Lanao del Sur, Philippines - Local executives and citizens of Malawi City gathered for a symbolic flag raising ceremony to assert civilian authority and unity in celebration of  Independence Day. As fighting rages on for the third week, police hung Philippine flags  around war torn Marawi to  boost troop morale. (Credit Image: © Richard Atrero De Guzman/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • June 12, 2017 - Marawi, Lanao del Sur, Philippines - A fire rages following a 2AM airstrike by the Philippine Air Force in Marawi City, southern Philippines, June 12, 2017. The military is stepping up its aerial offensives in a race to liberate the City of Marawi from Islamic militants in time for Philippine Independence Day on June 12. (Credit Image: © Richard Atrero De Guzman/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • September 5, 2017 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - Law enforcers surrounds a suspected militant hideout at Mirpur in the capital Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 7 September 2107..  Abdullah the suspected militant hiding at the 4th floor of a building along with his wives, two children and two other suspected militants. Later they exploded a suicidal bomb and killed themselves. (Photo by Khandaker Azizur Rahman (Credit Image: © Khandaker Azizur Rahman Sumon/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • August 15, 2017 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics) team of Bangladesh police leave the shooting scene after they tried to flush out suspected Islamist radicals who have holed up in a building in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A suspected militant was killed in a suicide blast during a raid on a hotel in Dhaka on Tuesday. Islamist Militant Saiful Islam blew himself up during the raid despite repeated requests to surrender. The law enforcement agencies cordoned off Hotel Olio International. A portion of the hotel's fourth story reportedly collapsed and fell onto the road after the explosion causing injuries. (Credit Image: © Suvra Kanti Das via ZUMA Wire)
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  • November 2, 2018 - Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan - Supporters of Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan(TLP) a hard line religious political party and others workers of religious parties chant slogans during a sit protest against the supreme court decision to overturn the conviction of Christian woman Asia Bibi who spent eight years on death row accused of blasphemy in Lahore on November 02, 2018. Pakistan's Supreme Court on October 31 overturned the conviction of Asia Bibi, a Christian mother facing execution for blasphemy, in a landmark case which has incited deadly violence and reached as far as the Vatican. Pakistan's powerful military warned on November 2 its patience had been thoroughly tested after being threatened by Islamist hardliners enraged by the acquittal of a Christian woman for blasphemy, as the country braced for more mass protests. (Credit Image: © Rana Sajid Hussain/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire)
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  • October 5, 2018 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - An Islamist Political Organization, Islamic Andolan Bangladesh calls a great national assembly demand for acceptable election at Suhrawardy Udaya. (Credit Image: © MD Mehedi Hasan/ZUMA Wire)
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  • August 15, 2017 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - Police's crime scene investigators collecting evidence after a terror suspect set off a blast killing himself inside a room of the Hotel Olio International in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A suspected militant was killed in a suicide blast during a raid on a hotel in Dhaka on Tuesday. Islamist Militant Saiful Islam blew himself up during the raid despite repeated requests to surrender. The law enforcement agencies cordoned off Hotel Olio International. A portion of the hotel's fourth story reportedly collapsed and fell onto the road after the explosion causing injuries.  (Credit Image: © Suvra Kanti Das via ZUMA Wire)
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  • June 28, 2017 - Marawi City, Philippines - Bodies at Capin Funeral Parlor for  identification. Investigators found one of the bodies was holding a handmade grenade. The 17 cadavers of civilians, who were 'allegedly' brutally murdered by ASG/Maute group in Brgy. Gadungan, Marawi City were retrieved by government troops and rescuers. (Credit Image: © Sherbien Dacalanio/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire)
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  • April 26, 2018 - Jabaliya, Gaza strip, Gaza - Palestinian mourners carry a coffin containing the body of Palestinian scientist Fadi al-Batsh, assassinated in Malaysia, after his body was returned to his native Gaza Strip on April 26, 2018 for his funeral in the city of Jabalia, in the north of the Palestinian enclave. Batsh, a member of the Islamist Hamas movement, was shot dead in a hail of bullets by motorbike-riding attackers as he walked to a Kuala Lumpur mosque for dawn prayers on April 21, 2018 (Credit Image: © Nidal Alwaheidi/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire)
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  • April 26, 2018 - Gaza, Palestinian Territories, Palestine - Palestinian mourners carry a coffin containing the body of Palestinian scientist Fadi al-Batsh, assassinated in Malaysia, after his body was returned to his native Gaza Strip on April 26, 2018 for his funeral in the city of Jabalia, in the north of the Palestinian enclave. Batsh, a member of the Islamist Hamas movement, was shot dead in a hail of bullets by motorbike-riding attackers as he walked to a Kuala Lumpur mosque for dawn prayers on April 21, 2018  (Credit Image: © Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • January 30, 2018 - Gaza City, The Gaza Strip, Palestine - Palestinian mourners, including Chairman of the political bureau of the Hamas Palestinian Islamist movement, Ismail Haniyeh (C), carry the body of senior Hamas leader, Imad al-Alami, during his funeral at al-Omari Mosque in Gaza City. According to Hamas official, Imad al-Alami died in Gaza three weeks after shooting himself in the head, on 09 January 2018, while inspecting his personal weapon. (Credit Image: © Hassan Jedi/Quds Net News via ZUMA Wire)
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  • January 30, 2018 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territory - Palestinian militants from the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement carry the body of Hamas senior leader Imad al-Alami during his funeral in Gaza City on January 30, 2018. A senior Hamas official has died in Gaza three weeks after shooting himself in the head in what officials described as an accident, the Palestinian Islamist group announced. Alami was wounded on January 9 while ''inspecting his personal weapon in his home'' in Gaza, Hamas said at the time  (Credit Image: © Ashraf Amra/APA Images via ZUMA Wire)
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  • January 30, 2018 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territory - Palestinian militants from the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement carry the body of Hamas senior leader Imad al-Alami during his funeral at the al-Omari mosque in Gaza City on January 30, 2018. A senior Hamas official has died in Gaza three weeks after shooting himself in the head in what officials described as an accident, the Palestinian Islamist group announced. Alami was wounded on January 9 while ''inspecting his personal weapon in his home'' in Gaza, Hamas said at the time  (Credit Image: © Ashraf Amra/APA Images via ZUMA Wire)
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  • August 17, 2017 - Rafah, Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territory - Palestinian policemen patrol on the border with Egypt, in Rafah in the southern of Gaza Strip. A suicide bomber killed a Palestinian security man in southern Gaza, officials said, in what was seen as a rare Islamist attack against the Palestinian group that has run the impoverished enclave for a decade.  (Credit Image: © Ashraf Amra/APA Images via ZUMA Wire)
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  • August 15, 2017 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - Police's crime scene investigators collecting evidence after a terror suspect set off a blast killing himself inside a room of the Hotel Olio International in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A suspected militant was killed in a suicide blast during a raid on a hotel in Dhaka on Tuesday. Islamist Militant Saiful Islam blew himself up during the raid despite repeated requests to surrender. The law enforcement agencies cordoned off Hotel Olio International. A portion of the hotel's fourth story reportedly collapsed and fell onto the road after the explosion causing injuries. (Credit Image: © Suvra Kanti Das via ZUMA Wire)
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  • August 15, 2017 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - Bangladesh fire brigade personnel carry an injured man to hospital after a blast, as Bangladeshi policemen try to flush out suspected Islamist radicals who have holed up in a building in Dhaka, Bangladesh (Credit Image: © Suvra Kanti Das via ZUMA Wire)
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  • June 27, 2017-  A soldier watches a plume of black smoke billowing from downtown of Marawi City, the Philippines. The Philippine government sticks to its policy of no negotiating with extremists allied with the Islamic State (IS) that overran Marawi City. (Credit Image: © Jeoffrey Maitem/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire)
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  • June 2, 2017 - Marawi, Philippines - Philipine marines secure a stronghold position in the village of Mapandi, in Marawi City, southern Philippines. Government troops advance their positions to assault the Islamist Militant Maute group. Photo by: Linus Guardian Escandor II  (Credit Image: © Linus Guardian Escandor Ii via ZUMA Wire)
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  • January 30, 2018 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territory - Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh carries the body of Hamas senior official Imad al-Alami during his funeral at the al-Omari mosque in Gaza City on January 30, 2018. A senior Hamas official has died in Gaza three weeks after shooting himself in the head in what officials described as an accident, the Palestinian Islamist group announced. Alami was wounded on January 9 while ''inspecting his personal weapon in his home'' in Gaza, Hamas said at the time  (Credit Image: © Ashraf Amra/APA Images via ZUMA Wire)
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  • June 25, 2017- Marawi, Philippines - A soldier carries a baby who was rescued from Marawi, Philippines. Five civilians, who had been trapped in Marawi with rebels, were rescued by government negotiators during a 8-hour truce declared by the government. (Credit Image: © Jeoffrey Maitem/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire)
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  • June 2, 2017 - A philippine soldier  secures a stronghold position in the village of Mapandi, in Marawi City, southern Philippines.  Anvancing their  positions to assault the Islamist Militant Maute group. (Credit Image: © Linus Guardian Escandor Ii via ZUMA Wire)
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  • May 6, 2018 - Gaza City, The Gaza Strip, Palestine - Members of the Islamist movement Hamas' military wing Al-Qassam Brigades gather around the bodies of six of their comrades who were killed in an unexplained explosion the night before, during their funeral in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza strip on May 6, 2018. Gaza's health ministry confirmed six people were killed and three others wounded in what residents said appeared to be an accidental explosion in the Az-Zawayda area of the central Gaza Strip. Al-Qassam Brigades blamed Israel for the explosion without providing details or proof, saying incident occurred during a ''complex security and intelligence operation'' and calling it a ''serious and large security incident' (Credit Image: © Mahmoud Issa/Quds Net News via ZUMA Wire)
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  • February 6, 2018 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territory - A Palestinian boy looks as truck drivers take part in a protest against the siege on the Gaza Strip, on February 6, 2018 in Gaza City. Israel has maintained a siege on Gaza for a decade which it says is necessary to limit Hamas, the Islamist movement that runs the strip and with which it has fought three wars since 2008. Egypt has also kept its border with Gaza largely closed in recent years, but has allowed some fuel to be imported  (Credit Image: © Yasser Qudih/APA Images via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 5, 2017 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territory - The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer (L), shakes hands with leader of the Hamas Islamist movement in Gaza Yahya Sinwar following a meeting in Gaza City, on September 5, 2017  (Credit Image: © Mohammed Asad/APA Images via ZUMA Wire)
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  • May 28, 2017 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - The statue of justice is being reinstalled at Annex Bhaban of the Supreme Court on Saturday late night in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 27-28 May 2017. The removal of statue drew widespread protest and criticism from progressive forces while Islamist groups, including Hefazat, on Friday thanked the prime minister for the removal of what they called an ‘idol.’Witnesses said that the work of reinstalling the statue began about 9:00pm in presence of law enforcers.‘We have reinstalled the sculpture at Annex Bhaban at the instruction of the Supreme Court authorities,‘ said Mrinal Haque, sculptor of the statue, who also oversaw the removal of the statue late Thursday night. (Credit Image: © Sony Ramany/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • August 17, 2017 - Rafah, Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territory - Palestinian policemen stop a vehicle at a security checkpoint, in Rafah in the southern of Gaza Strip August 17, 2017. A suicide bomber killed a Palestinian security man in southern Gaza, officials said, in what was seen as a rare Islamist attack against the Palestinian group that has run the impoverished enclave for a decade  (Credit Image: © Ashraf Amra/APA Images via ZUMA Wire)
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  • Clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Muslim clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Muslim clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Nuns attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Nuns attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Nuns attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Nuns attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • A muslim cleric attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • A general view of a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • A general view of a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • A general view of a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • A general view of a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • A general view of a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • A general view of a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • A general view of a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • A general view of a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • A general view of a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • A general view of a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • A general view of a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • A general view of a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • A general view of a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • A general view of a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Clerics attend a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • A general view of a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • A general view of a ceremony at the Chapel of our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran, during which seven French monks and 12 other clergy, killed in Tibhirine (or Tibehirine) during the country's civil war in March 1996, were beatified, on December 8, 2018. Papal envoy Cardinal Angelo Becciu read the official decree stating that the 19 men and women would "from now on be called blessed" at an event in the coastal city, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. The 19 Roman Catholic clergy were killed between 1994 and 1996 as Algeria was in the grips of a decade-long civil war between government forces and Islamists that left up to 200,000 people dead. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM
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