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Pope Leo XIV Presides Mass For Jubilee of Prisoners - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV Presides Mass For Jubilee of Prisoners - Vatican

The hosts for the celebration will be donated by the Casa dello Spirito e delle Arti Foundation through the project "Il senso del Pane" (The Meaning of Bread), which since 2016 has involved more than 300 prisoners each year in the creation of hosts destined for over 15,000 Italian and foreign dioceses, religious congregations, parishes, monasteries and Christian communities during a mass on the occasion of the Jubilee of Prisoners at St Peter's basilica in the Vatican on December 14, 2025. Photo by ALESSIA GIULIANI/Catholic Press Photo/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV Presides Mass For Jubilee of Prisoners - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV Presides Mass For Jubilee of Prisoners - Vatican

The hosts for the celebration will be donated by the Casa dello Spirito e delle Arti Foundation through the project "Il senso del Pane" (The Meaning of Bread), which since 2016 has involved more than 300 prisoners each year in the creation of hosts destined for over 15,000 Italian and foreign dioceses, religious congregations, parishes, monasteries and Christian communities during a mass on the occasion of the Jubilee of Prisoners at St Peter's basilica in the Vatican on December 14, 2025. Photo by ALESSIA GIULIANI/Catholic Press Photo/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV Celebrates Holy Jubilee Mass - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV Celebrates Holy Jubilee Mass - Vatican

.The hosts for the celebration will be donated by the Casa dello Spirito e delle Arti Foundation through the project "Il senso del Pane" (The Meaning of Bread), which since 2016 has involved more than 300 prisoners each year in the creation of hosts destined for over 15,000 Italian and foreign dioceses, religious congregations, parishes, monasteries and Christian communities during a mass on the occasion of the Jubilee of Prisoners at St Peter's basilica in The Vatican , on December 14, 2025. Photo by Alessia Giuliani/CP/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Surtourisme

Illustration - Surtourisme

JAPAN. TOKYO. JAPAN. TOKYO. ASAKUSA. CROWD AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE SENSO-JI TEMPLE DEDICATED TO THE GODDESS KANNON. Photo by Antoine Lorgnier/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Sanja festival in Tokyo's Asakusa

TOKYO, Japan, May 17 Kyodo - People participate in the Sanja festival near Kaminari-mon gate at Senso-ji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa area despite the rain on May 17, 2025. (Kyodo)

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Sanja festival in Tokyo's Asakusa

Sanja festival in Tokyo's Asakusa

People participate in the Sanja festival near Kaminari-mon gate at Senso-ji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa area despite the rain on May 17, 2025.

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Sanja festival in Tokyo's Asakusa

Sanja festival in Tokyo's Asakusa

People participate in the Sanja festival near Kaminari-mon gate at Senso-ji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa area despite the rain on May 17, 2025.

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Sanja festival in Tokyo's Asakusa

Sanja festival in Tokyo's Asakusa

People participate in the Sanja festival near Kaminari-mon gate at Senso-ji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa area despite the rain on May 17, 2025.

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New Year's Day in Tokyo

New Year's Day in Tokyo

Senso-ji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa area is crowded with people on Jan. 1, 2025.

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New Year's Day in Tokyo

New Year's Day in Tokyo

A shopping street leading to Senso-ji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa area is crowded with people on Jan. 1, 2025.

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New Year's Day in Tokyo

New Year's Day in Tokyo

A shopping street leading to Senso-ji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa area is crowded with people on Jan. 1, 2025.

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New Year's Day in Tokyo

New Year's Day in Tokyo

A shopping street leading to Senso-ji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa area is crowded with people on Jan. 1, 2025.

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Senso-ji temple in Tokyo

Senso-ji temple in Tokyo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 5, 2024 shows Senso-ji temple, Tokyo's oldest Buddhist temple, in the Asakusa district of the Japanese capital.

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Senso-ji temple in Tokyo

Senso-ji temple in Tokyo

Photo taken on June 26, 2024, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Kaminarimon gate at Senso-ji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district.

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Senso-ji temple in Tokyo

Senso-ji temple in Tokyo

Photo taken on June 26, 2024, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Kaminarimon gate at Senso-ji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district.

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Senso-ji temple in Tokyo

Senso-ji temple in Tokyo

Photo taken on June 26, 2024, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Kaminarimon gate at Senso-ji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district.

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Sanja festival in Tokyo's Asakusa

Sanja festival in Tokyo's Asakusa

People participate in the Sanja festival near Kaminari-mon gate at Senso-ji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa area on May 18, 2024.

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Sanja festival in Tokyo's Asakusa

Sanja festival in Tokyo's Asakusa

People participate in the Sanja festival near Kaminari-mon gate at Senso-ji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa area on May 18, 2024.

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Golden Week begins in Japan

Golden Week begins in Japan

A shopping street at Senso-ji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa area is crowded with people on April 27, 2024, as Japan enters the Golden Week holiday season.

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Golden Week begins in Japan

Golden Week begins in Japan

A street leading to Kaminari-mon gate at Senso-ji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa area is crowded with people on April 27, 2024, as Japan enters the Golden Week holiday season.

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Golden Week begins in Japan

Golden Week begins in Japan

Kaminari-mon gate at Senso-ji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa area is crowded with people on April 29, 2023, as Japan enters the Golden Week holiday season.

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Golden Week begins in Japan

Golden Week begins in Japan

Kaminari-mon gate at Senso-ji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa area is crowded with people on April 29, 2023, as Japan enters the Golden Week holiday season.

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Travelers to Japan top 10 mil. in Jan.-June

Travelers to Japan top 10 mil. in Jan.-June

The Nakamise shopping street running to Senso-ji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district is crowded with foreign tourists on July 19, 2023. Government data shows foreign arrivals to Japan from January to June topped 10 million for the first time since the same period in 2019 before the coronavirus pandemic.

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Travelers to Japan top 10 mil. in Jan.-June

Travelers to Japan top 10 mil. in Jan.-June

The Nakamise shopping street running to Senso-ji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district is crowded with foreign tourists on July 19, 2023. Government data shows foreign arrivals to Japan from January to June topped 10 million for the first time since the same period in 2019 before the coronavirus pandemic.

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Travelers to Japan top 10 mil. in Jan.-June

Travelers to Japan top 10 mil. in Jan.-June

Senso-ji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district is crowded with tourists on July 19, 2023. Government data shows foreign arrivals to Japan from January to June topped 10 million for the first time since the same period in 2019 before the coronavirus pandemic.

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Golden Week begins in Japan

Golden Week begins in Japan

Kaminari-mon gate at Senso-ji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa area is crowded with people on April 29, 2023, as Japan enters the Golden Week holiday season.

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Golden Week begins in Japan

Golden Week begins in Japan

Kaminari-mon gate at Senso-ji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa area is crowded with people on April 29, 2023, as Japan enters the Golden Week holiday season.

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Tourists visit Senso-ji temple in Asakusa under heavy snow

Tourists visit Senso-ji temple in Asakusa under heavy snow

TOKYO, Japan - A woman poses for a photo at the Kaminarimon (Thunder Gate) of the Senso-ji temple in Asakusa, Tokyo, under a record-breaking heavy fall of snow on Feb. 8, 2014, with other tourists passing by.

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New S. Korean TV drama

New S. Korean TV drama

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean stars Jung Woo Sung (L) and Soo Ae attend a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, on Aug. 30, 2010, about their new TV drama ''Athena Senso no Megami'' (Athena, Goddess of War), a sequel to the popular TV drama series ''Iris.'' The drama is scheduled to be shot in Japan's Tottori Prefecture from September and Tottori Gov. Shinji Hirai attended the press conference as well.

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Osaka people form standing message in protest at Iraq war

Osaka people form standing message in protest at Iraq war

OSAKA, Japan - Some 2,500 citizens and students protesting against the U.S.-led war in Iraq stand in the shape of Japanese characters spelling the phrase ''Senso Akan'' -- ''No War'' in Kansai dialect -- in the park within Osaka Castle's compound on March 30.

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Nagasaki residents hold WWII exhibition

Nagasaki residents hold WWII exhibition

NAGASAKI, Japan - Visitors view displays at an exhibition on Japan's World War II occupation of Indonesia that was opened by a group of Nagasaki residents on Nov. 17 after the city government refused to provide the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum as a venue. The ''Nichiran Senso Gembaku Ten'' (Exhibition on the Japan-Netherlands War and the Atomic Bomb) includes testimonies by Dutch POWs captured after the Imperial Japanese Army occupied Indonesia, which was then a Dutch colony.

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Senso film (1954)

Senso film (1954)

Alida Valli & Farley Granger Characters: La contessa Livia Serpieri, Il tenente Franz Mahler Film: Senso (1955) Director: Luchino Visconti 03 September 1954 Senso (Senso, IT 1954, Regie: Luchino Visconti) Alida Valli, Farley Granger / Paar, Mode Kleidung Italien Mitte 19. Jahrhundert, Kleid mit Reifrock, Uniform mit Degen; italienischer Bクrgerkrieg 'Risorgimento'; aka: 'Sehnsucht' (Titel der verstクmmelten Fassung, die in den 1950er Jahren in Kino kam) / RTG9 Date: 03-Sep-54

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SENSO

SENSO

SENSO [IT 1954] aka THE WANTON COUNTESS FARLEY GRANGER [centre] Date: 1954

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SENSO

SENSO

SENSO [IT 1954] aka THE WANTON COUNTESS ALIDA VALLI Date: 1954

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SENSO

SENSO

SENSO aka THE WANTON COUNTESS ALIDA VALLI, FARLEY GRANGER Date: 1954

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SENSO

SENSO

SENSO aka THE WANTON COUNTESS SENSO Date: 1954

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SENSO

SENSO

SENSO aka THE WANTON COUNTESS FARLEY GRANGER, ALIDA VALLI Date: 1954

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SENSO

SENSO

SENSO aka THE WANTON COUNTESS FARLEY GRANGER, ALIDA VALLI Date: 1954

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SENSO

SENSO

SENSO aka THE WANTON COUNTESS MASSIMO GIROTTI?, FARLEY GRANGER Date: 1954

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SENSO

SENSO

SENSO aka THE WANTON COUNTESS ALIDA VALLI Date: 1954

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SENSO

SENSO

SENSO aka THE WANTON COUNTESS ALIDA VALLI Date: 1954

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Kabuki actors pray at temple for April performance's success

Kabuki actors pray at temple for April performance's success

Kabuki actor Nakamura Ganjiro (C) and fellow actors pose in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Feb. 27, 2015, after praying at Senso-ji Temple for the success of their performance at the Kabukiza theater in the Japanese capital in April celebrating his succession to the kabuki name taken from his predecessor. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kabuki actor Ganjiro responds to fans in Tokyo's Asakusa district

Kabuki actor Ganjiro responds to fans in Tokyo's Asakusa district

Kabuki actor Nakamura Ganjiro (C) acknowledges cheers from well-wishers during a traditional procession in the shop-lined approach to Senso-ji Temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Feb. 27, 2015, after praying for the success of his name-taking performance at the Kabukiza theater in the Japanese capital in April. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New S. Korean TV drama

New S. Korean TV drama

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean stars Jung Woo Sung (L) and Soo Ae attend a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, on Aug. 30, 2010, about their new TV drama ''Athena Senso no Megami'' (Athena, Goddess of War), a sequel to the popular TV drama series ''Iris.'' The drama is scheduled to be shot in Japan's Tottori Prefecture from September and Tottori Gov. Shinji Hirai attended the press conference as well. (Kyodo)

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1st Nov. snowfall in 54 years as cold air grips Tokyo

1st Nov. snowfall in 54 years as cold air grips Tokyo

People walk along Nakamise-dori, an approach to the Senso-ji temple, one of Tokyo's popular sightseeing spots, on the morning of Nov. 24, 2016, the day when the Japanese capital had snowfall in November for the first time in 54 years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo reports record 366 new daily COVID-19 cases

Tokyo reports record 366 new daily COVID-19 cases

Few people are seen at Senso-ji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa, a popular sightseeing area, on July 23, 2020. The Tokyo metropolitan government confirmed the same day a single-day record of 366 new cases of the novel coronavirus.

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Japan after coronavirus state-of-emergency lifting

Japan after coronavirus state-of-emergency lifting

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a shopping street leading to Senso-ji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa area on May 26, 2020, a day after Japan completely lifted a state of emergency imposed to fight the new coronavirus.(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

New coronavirus

Tokyo's Senso-ji Temple is deserted on May 21, 2020, as a coronavirus state of emergency remains in place in the capital. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

New coronavirus

Tokyo's Senso-ji Temple is deserted on May 21, 2020, as a coronavirus state of emergency remains in place in the capital. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo's Asakusa

Tokyo's Asakusa

Photo taken April 16, 2020, shows a five-storied pagoda at Senso-ji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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