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Pope Leo XIV's Traditional Homage To The Immaculate Conception - Rome

Pope Leo XIV pays homage to the statue of the Immaculate Conception in the Piazza di Spagna in Rome, Italy on December 8, 2025. Continuing a decades-old tradition Pope Leo XIV prayed at the foot of the 12-meter column on top of which the figure of the Virgin Mary is placed. Photo by (EV) Matteo Pernaselci/ Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV's Traditional Homage To The Immaculate Conception - Rome

Pope Leo XIV greets Roberto Gualtieri, mayor of Rome, before paying homage to the statue of the Immaculate Conception in the Piazza di Spagna in Rome, Italy on December 8, 2025. Continuing a decades-old tradition Pope Leo XIV prayed at the foot of the 12-meter column on top of which the figure of the Virgin Mary is placed. Photo by (EV) Simone Risoluti/ Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV's Traditional Homage To The Immaculate Conception - Rome

Pope Leo XIV pays homage to the statue of the Immaculate Conception in the Piazza di Spagna in Rome, Italy on December 8, 2025. Continuing a decades-old tradition Pope Leo XIV prayed at the foot of the 12-meter column on top of which the figure of the Virgin Mary is placed. Photo by (EV) Simone Risoluti/ Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV's Traditional Homage To The Immaculate Conception - Rome

Pope Leo XIV pays homage to the statue of the Immaculate Conception in the Piazza di Spagna in Rome, Italy on December 8, 2025. Continuing a decades-old tradition Pope Leo XIV prayed at the foot of the 12-meter column on top of which the figure of the Virgin Mary is placed. Photo by (EV) Mario Tomassetti/ Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV's Traditional Homage To The Immaculate Conception - Rome

Pope Leo XIV pays homage to the statue of the Immaculate Conception in the Piazza di Spagna in Rome, Italy on December 8, 2025. Continuing a decades-old tradition Pope Leo XIV prayed at the foot of the 12-meter column on top of which the figure of the Virgin Mary is placed. Photo by (EV) Simone Risoluti/ Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV's Traditional Homage To The Immaculate Conception - Rome

Pope Leo XIV pays homage to the statue of the Immaculate Conception in the Piazza di Spagna in Rome, Italy on December 8, 2025. Continuing a decades-old tradition Pope Leo XIV prayed at the foot of the 12-meter column on top of which the figure of the Virgin Mary is placed. Photo by (EV) Simone Risoluti/ Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV's Traditional Homage To The Immaculate Conception - Rome

Pope Leo XIV pays homage to the statue of the Immaculate Conception in the Piazza di Spagna in Rome, Italy on December 8, 2025. Continuing a decades-old tradition Pope Leo XIV prayed at the foot of the 12-meter column on top of which the figure of the Virgin Mary is placed. Photo by (EV) Simone Risoluti/ Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV's Traditional Homage To The Immaculate Conception - Rome

Pope Leo XIV pays homage to the statue of the Immaculate Conception in the Piazza di Spagna in Rome, Italy on December 8, 2025. Continuing a decades-old tradition Pope Leo XIV prayed at the foot of the 12-meter column on top of which the figure of the Virgin Mary is placed. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV's Traditional Homage To The Immaculate Conception - Rome

Pope Leo XIV pays homage to the statue of the Immaculate Conception in the Piazza di Spagna in Rome, Italy on December 8, 2025. Continuing a decades-old tradition Pope Leo XIV prayed at the foot of the 12-meter column on top of which the figure of the Virgin Mary is placed. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV's Traditional Homage To The Immaculate Conception - Rome

Pope Leo XIV pays homage to the statue of the Immaculate Conception in the Piazza di Spagna in Rome, Italy on December 8, 2025. Continuing a decades-old tradition Pope Leo XIV prayed at the foot of the 12-meter column on top of which the figure of the Virgin Mary is placed. Photo by (EV) Simone Risoluti/ Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV's Traditional Homage To The Immaculate Conception - Rome

Pope Leo XIV pays homage to the statue of the Immaculate Conception in the Piazza di Spagna in Rome, Italy on December 8, 2025. Continuing a decades-old tradition Pope Leo XIV prayed at the foot of the 12-meter column on top of which the figure of the Virgin Mary is placed. Photo by (EV) Simone Risoluti/ Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV's Traditional Homage To The Immaculate Conception - Rome

Pope Leo XIV pays homage to the statue of the Immaculate Conception in the Piazza di Spagna in Rome, Italy on December 8, 2025. Continuing a decades-old tradition Pope Leo XIV prayed at the foot of the 12-meter column on top of which the figure of the Virgin Mary is placed. Photo by (EV) Simone Risoluti/ Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV's Traditional Homage To The Immaculate Conception - Rome

Pope Leo XIV pays homage to the statue of the Immaculate Conception in the Piazza di Spagna in Rome, Italy on December 8, 2025. Continuing a decades-old tradition Pope Leo XIV prayed at the foot of the 12-meter column on top of which the figure of the Virgin Mary is placed. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV's Traditional Homage To The Immaculate Conception - Rome

Pope Leo XIV pays homage to the statue of the Immaculate Conception in the Piazza di Spagna in Rome, Italy on December 8, 2025. Continuing a decades-old tradition Pope Leo XIV prayed at the foot of the 12-meter column on top of which the figure of the Virgin Mary is placed. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hong Kong: Long Lines of Mourners at Tai Po High-Rise Fire Site

On November 30, near the site of the high-rise apartment fire in the Tai Po district that occurred on Wednesday, November 26, a long line of people visiting to pay their respects was seen. Hundreds laid flowers, wrote messages, and prayed for the victims, The Wang Fuk Court fire has so far claimed 159 lives, and around 30 people remain unaccounted for. This video shows the line of people stretching all the way to Lam Tsuen River.

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Cheering Crowds For Pope Leo XIV - Beirut

People attends Pope Leo XIV as his motorcade passes through Jounieh, north of Beirut. Pope Leo prayed for peace in Lebanon and the region on December 1, 2025 on day two of his trip to the multi-confessional country, with joyful Lebanese welcoming the pontiff at two famous pilgrimage sites, in Jounieh, Beirut, Lebanon on December 1, 2025. Photo by Raymond Chihane/CPP/IPA/BACAPRESS.COM

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Cheering Crowds For Pope Leo XIV - Beirut

People attends Pope Leo XIV as his motorcade passes through Jounieh, north of Beirut. Pope Leo prayed for peace in Lebanon and the region on December 1, 2025 on day two of his trip to the multi-confessional country, with joyful Lebanese welcoming the pontiff at two famous pilgrimage sites, in Jounieh, Beirut, Lebanon on December 1, 2025. Photo by Raymond Chihane/CPP/IPA/BACAPRESS.COM

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Cheering Crowds For Pope Leo XIV - Beirut

People attends Pope Leo XIV as his motorcade passes through Jounieh, north of Beirut. Pope Leo prayed for peace in Lebanon and the region on December 1, 2025 on day two of his trip to the multi-confessional country, with joyful Lebanese welcoming the pontiff at two famous pilgrimage sites, in Jounieh, Beirut, Lebanon on December 1, 2025. Photo by Raymond Chihane/CPP/IPA/BACAPRESS.COM

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Cheering Crowds For Pope Leo XIV - Beirut

People attends Pope Leo XIV as his motorcade passes through Jounieh, north of Beirut. Pope Leo prayed for peace in Lebanon and the region on December 1, 2025 on day two of his trip to the multi-confessional country, with joyful Lebanese welcoming the pontiff at two famous pilgrimage sites, in Jounieh, Beirut, Lebanon on December 1, 2025. Photo by Raymond Chihane/CPP/IPA/BACAPRESS.COM

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Cheering Crowds For Pope Leo XIV - Beirut

People attends Pope Leo XIV as his motorcade passes through Jounieh, north of Beirut. Pope Leo prayed for peace in Lebanon and the region on December 1, 2025 on day two of his trip to the multi-confessional country, with joyful Lebanese welcoming the pontiff at two famous pilgrimage sites, in Jounieh, Beirut, Lebanon on December 1, 2025. Photo by Raymond Chihane/CPP/IPA/BACAPRESS.COM

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Cheering Crowds For Pope Leo XIV - Beirut

People attends Pope Leo XIV as his motorcade passes through Jounieh, north of Beirut. Pope Leo prayed for peace in Lebanon and the region on December 1, 2025 on day two of his trip to the multi-confessional country, with joyful Lebanese welcoming the pontiff at two famous pilgrimage sites, in Jounieh, Beirut, Lebanon on December 1, 2025. Photo by Raymond Chihane/CPP/IPA/BACAPRESS.COM

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Cheering Crowds For Pope Leo XIV - Beirut

People attends Pope Leo XIV as his motorcade passes through Jounieh, north of Beirut. Pope Leo prayed for peace in Lebanon and the region on December 1, 2025 on day two of his trip to the multi-confessional country, with joyful Lebanese welcoming the pontiff at two famous pilgrimage sites, in Jounieh, Beirut, Lebanon on December 1, 2025. Photo by Raymond Chihane/CPP/IPA/BACAPRESS.COM

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Cheering Crowds For Pope Leo XIV - Beirut

People attends Pope Leo XIV as his motorcade passes through Jounieh, north of Beirut. Pope Leo prayed for peace in Lebanon and the region on December 1, 2025 on day two of his trip to the multi-confessional country, with joyful Lebanese welcoming the pontiff at two famous pilgrimage sites, in Jounieh, Beirut, Lebanon on December 1, 2025. Photo by Raymond Chihane/CPP/IPA/BACAPRESS.COM

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Cheering Crowds For Pope Leo XIV - Beirut

People attends Pope Leo XIV as his motorcade passes through Jounieh, north of Beirut. Pope Leo prayed for peace in Lebanon and the region on December 1, 2025 on day two of his trip to the multi-confessional country, with joyful Lebanese welcoming the pontiff at two famous pilgrimage sites, in Jounieh, Beirut, Lebanon on December 1, 2025. Photo by Raymond Chihane/CPP/IPA/BACAPRESS.COM

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Cheering Crowds For Pope Leo XIV - Beirut

People attends Pope Leo XIV as his motorcade passes through Jounieh, north of Beirut. Pope Leo prayed for peace in Lebanon and the region on December 1, 2025 on day two of his trip to the multi-confessional country, with joyful Lebanese welcoming the pontiff at two famous pilgrimage sites, in Jounieh, Beirut, Lebanon on December 1, 2025. Photo by Raymond Chihane/CPP/IPA/BACAPRESS.COM

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Cheering Crowds For Pope Leo XIV - Beirut

People attends Pope Leo XIV as his motorcade passes through Jounieh, north of Beirut. Pope Leo prayed for peace in Lebanon and the region on December 1, 2025 on day two of his trip to the multi-confessional country, with joyful Lebanese welcoming the pontiff at two famous pilgrimage sites, in Jounieh, Beirut, Lebanon on December 1, 2025. Photo by Raymond Chihane/CPP/IPA/BACAPRESS.COM

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Cheering Crowds For Pope Leo XIV - Beirut

People attends Pope Leo XIV as his motorcade passes through Jounieh, north of Beirut. Pope Leo prayed for peace in Lebanon and the region on December 1, 2025 on day two of his trip to the multi-confessional country, with joyful Lebanese welcoming the pontiff at two famous pilgrimage sites, in Jounieh, Beirut, Lebanon on December 1, 2025. Photo by Raymond Chihane/CPP/IPA/BACAPRESS.COM

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Cheering Crowds For Pope Leo XIV - Beirut

People attends Pope Leo XIV as his motorcade passes through Jounieh, north of Beirut. Pope Leo prayed for peace in Lebanon and the region on December 1, 2025 on day two of his trip to the multi-confessional country, with joyful Lebanese welcoming the pontiff at two famous pilgrimage sites, in Jounieh, Beirut, Lebanon on December 1, 2025. Photo by Raymond Chihane/CPP/IPA/BACAPRESS.COM

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Cheering Crowds For Pope Leo XIV - Beirut

People attends Pope Leo XIV as his motorcade passes through Jounieh, north of Beirut. Pope Leo prayed for peace in Lebanon and the region on December 1, 2025 on day two of his trip to the multi-confessional country, with joyful Lebanese welcoming the pontiff at two famous pilgrimage sites, in Jounieh, Beirut, Lebanon on December 1, 2025. Photo by Raymond Chihane/CPP/IPA/BACAPRESS.COM

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Cheering Crowds For Pope Leo XIV - Beirut

People attends Pope Leo XIV as his motorcade passes through Jounieh, north of Beirut. Pope Leo prayed for peace in Lebanon and the region on December 1, 2025 on day two of his trip to the multi-confessional country, with joyful Lebanese welcoming the pontiff at two famous pilgrimage sites, in Jounieh, Beirut, Lebanon on December 1, 2025. Photo by Raymond Chihane/CPP/IPA/BACAPRESS.COM

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Cheering Crowds For Pope Leo XIV - Beirut

People attends Pope Leo XIV as his motorcade passes through Jounieh, north of Beirut. Pope Leo prayed for peace in Lebanon and the region on December 1, 2025 on day two of his trip to the multi-confessional country, with joyful Lebanese welcoming the pontiff at two famous pilgrimage sites, in Jounieh, Beirut, Lebanon on December 1, 2025. Photo by Raymond Chihane/CPP/IPA/BACAPRESS.COM

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Cheering Crowds For Pope Leo XIV - Beirut

People attends Pope Leo XIV as his motorcade passes through Jounieh, north of Beirut. Pope Leo prayed for peace in Lebanon and the region on December 1, 2025 on day two of his trip to the multi-confessional country, with joyful Lebanese welcoming the pontiff at two famous pilgrimage sites, in Jounieh, Beirut, Lebanon on December 1, 2025. Photo by Raymond Chihane/CPP/IPA/BACAPRESS.COM

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President Trump speaks at the religious liberty commission at DC?s Museum of the Bible

Pastor Paula White listens to a prayed led by US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner at the religious liberty commission at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, USA, 08 September 2025. Trump spoke about religion in schools, limiting transgender surgeries, and his administration’s attempt to what he termed the woke agenda.

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File - Pope Jean Paul II

File photo dated August 15, 2004. Frail pope John Paul II visited the shrine to the Virgin Mary in Lourdes that is associated with miraculous cures and he prayed alone in the grotto of the apparitions. - Lourdes Vatican. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Butter Lamp Festival - Lhasa

A monk participates in a ceremony at Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, the capital of southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, December 25, 2024. People of the Tibetan ethnic group lit butter lamps and prayed through the night in the annual Butter Lamp Festival commemorating Tsong Khapa, a master of Tibetan Buddhism. Photo by Tenzing Nima Qadhup/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Butter Lamp Festival - Lhasa

Monks light butter lamps at Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, the capital of southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, December 25, 2024. People of the Tibetan ethnic group lit butter lamps and prayed through the night in the annual Butter Lamp Festival commemorating Tsong Khapa, a master of Tibetan Buddhism. Photo by Tenzing Nima Qadhup/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Butter Lamp Festival - Lhasa

A monk lights butter lamps at Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, the capital of southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, December 25, 2024. People of the Tibetan ethnic group lit butter lamps and prayed through the night in the annual Butter Lamp Festival commemorating Tsong Khapa, a master of Tibetan Buddhism. Photo by Tenzing Nima Qadhup/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Butter Lamp Festival - Lhasa

Butter lamps are lit up at Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, the capital of southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, December 25, 2024. People of the Tibetan ethnic group lit butter lamps and prayed through the night in the annual Butter Lamp Festival commemorating Tsong Khapa, a master of Tibetan Buddhism. Photo by Tenzing Nima Qadhup/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Butter Lamp Festival - Lhasa

Monks participate in a ceremony at Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, the capital of southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, December 25, 2024. People of the Tibetan ethnic group lit butter lamps and prayed through the night in the annual Butter Lamp Festival commemorating Tsong Khapa, a master of Tibetan Buddhism. Photo by Tenzing Nima Qadhup/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Butter Lamp Festival - Lhasa

A monk lights butter lamps at Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, the capital of southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, December 25, 2024. People of the Tibetan ethnic group lit butter lamps and prayed through the night in the annual Butter Lamp Festival commemorating Tsong Khapa, a master of Tibetan Buddhism. Photo by Tenzing Nima Qadhup/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Indonesia Green Affordable Housing Program In North Sumatra

Member of the Indonesian Photojournalist of Medan, Andi Cristop Simanjuntak (50) with his wife, Jihan Astri Lubis (33) prayed when they saw after the credit application granted by the National Savings Bank (BTN) at USU Residence III Housing complex in Patumbak sub-district, Deli Serdang district, North Sumatra province, Indonesia on February 19, 2024. The Republic of Indonesia President, Joko Widodo through the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) initiated the Environmentally Friendly Housing Financing Program (Indonesia Green Affordable Housing Program/IGAHP) which targets low-income communities (MBR) and is scheduled to run from 2024. In line, the Indonesian government chose the BTN People's Housing Credit (KPR) as a subsidized home ownership credit system from the Indonesian government to meet housing needs. Photo by Aditya Sutanta/ABACAPRESSC.OM

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Iran vehemently condemns Israeli airstrike on Gaza refugee camp

STORY: Iran vehemently condemns Israeli airstrike on Gaza refugee camp SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 25, 2023 DATELINE: Dec. 26, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:42 LOCATION: Tehran CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman speaking STORYLINE: Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman on Monday strongly condemned the "brutal" Israeli bombardment of central Gaza's al-Maghazi refugee camp that killed at least 70 Palestinians on Sunday. At a weekly press conference in Tehran, Nasser Kanaani said it was regrettable that when many people prayed in sympathy and solidarity for the Palestinians, Israel did not stop its "crimes" and killing in Gaza. Kanaani called on the international community to take practical and deterrent measures to prevent Israel's continued killing of Palestinians. When commenting on a resolution adopted by the UN Security Council (UNSC) on Friday demanding immediate and unhindered humanitarian access throughout Gaza, the spokesman said it once again showed the U.S. full sup

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Japan PM Abe visits war memorial in Papua New Guinea

WEWAK, Papua New Guinea - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie give silent prayer on July 11, 2014, in front of a World War II memorial in Wewak, Papua New Guinea. They prayed for the souls of those killed in World War II in Papua New Guinea and at sea nearby.

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Japan PM Abe visits war memorial in Papua New Guinea

WEWAK, Papua New Guinea - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie give silent prayer on July 11, 2014, in front of a World War II memorial in Wewak, Papua New Guinea. They prayed for the souls of those killed in World War II in Papua New Guinea and at sea nearby.

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Japan PM Abe visits war memorial in Papua New Guinea

WEWAK, Papua New Guinea - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie give silent prayer on July 11, 2014, in front of a World War II memorial in Wewak, Papua New Guinea. They prayed for the souls of those killed in World War II in Papua New Guinea and at sea nearby.

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People remember 1985 JAL crash victims in Gunma Pref.

UENO, Japan - People release paper lanterns on a river in the village of Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, in memory of the 1985 Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash victims and prayed for the safety of air transportation on Aug. 11, 2010, the eve of the memorial ceremony. All but four of the 524 passengers and crew members aboard were killed in the world's worst single-aircraft accident.

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People remember 1985 JAL crash victims in Gunma Pref.

UENO, Japan - People blow bubbles in memory of the 1985 Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash victims and prayed for the safety of air transportation at the village of Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, near the crash site, on Aug. 11, 2010, the eve of the memorial ceremony. All but four of the 524 passengers and crew members aboard were killed in the world's worst single-aircraft accident.

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People remember 1985 JAL crash victims in Gunma Pref.

UENO, Japan - People release paper lanterns on a river in the village of Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, in memory of the 1985 Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash victims and prayed for the safety of air transportation on Aug. 11, 2010, the eve of the memorial ceremony. All but four of the 524 passengers and crew members aboard were killed in the world's worst single-aircraft accident.

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Yukake Festival takes place in Kawarayu Hot Springs

NAGANOHARA, Japan - Men wearing traditional Japanese loincloths splash each other with warm water at the Kawarayu hot spring district in Naganohara, Gunma Prefecture, on Jan. 20, 2010, during the annual Yukake Festival. Some 60 men took part in the ritual as they prayed for the prosperity of the region. The resort district had been scheduled to be submerged due to the construction of a dam, known as the Yamba Dam, until the Democratic Party of Japan decided to abort the project.

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260-kg tuna offered at shrine for business prosperity

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - A child held up by an adult puts a coin atop a 260-kilogram tuna offered at the Nishinomiya Shrine, which enshrines the god of business prosperity, in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 8, 2010. The tuna was offered by a local marine products wholesalers' group to the shrine and worshippers placed coins on its body and prayed for economic fortune as an annual event that started in 1970.