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Pope Benedict XVI greets artists, actors and musicians in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on Saturday.

Pope meets 250 artists to renew friendship

Pope Benedict met artists from around the world in the Sistine Chapel and urged them to inject spirituality into their work, saying contemporary beauty was often "illusory and deceitful." Full story

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Nov. 20: A masked gunman shots and kills a Russian Orthodox priest in Moscow. Police believe the gunman had religious motives. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown has the story.

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