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Murdered popes. John VIII (872–882), poisoned and then clubbed to death [10] Stephen VI (896–897), strangled [11] Leo V (903), allegedly strangled [12] John X (914–928), allegedly smothered with a pillow [13] John XII (955–964), allegedly murdered by the jealous husband of the woman with whom he was in bed [14]
Mehmet Ali Ağca. The location of the shooting, marked by a stone tablet, in St. Peter's Square. On 13 May 1981, in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Ağca while he was entering the square. The Pope was struck twice and suffered severe blood loss.
Bojinka plot. The Bojinka plot (Arabic: بوجينكا; Tagalog: Proyektong Bojinka) was a large-scale, three-phase terrorist attack planned by Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for January 1995. They planned to assassinate Pope John Paul II; blow up 11 airliners in flight from Asia to the United States, with the goal of killing ...
Assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II [ edit ] On 12 May 1982, Fernández y Krohn assaulted Pope John Paul II with a bayonet in Fátima, Portugal , on the occasion of the Pope's pilgrimage to give thanks for his life being spared one year earlier at St. Peter's Square in the attack by the assassin Mehmet Ali Ağca .
Jean-Bertrand Aristide [44] Catholic Salesian priest, political dissident, and future President of Haiti. Port-au-Prince. Haiti. Ex- Tonton Macoute member. 1988. 20 October. Nikola Štedul [45] Croat émigré from Yugoslavia and head of the Croatian Statehood Movement.
Pope John Paul II. Mehmet Ali Ağca (Turkish pronunciation: [mehˈmet aˈli ˈaːdʒa]; born 9 January 1958) is a Turkish hitman, former member of the Grey Wolves. He murdered the leftist journalist Abdi İpekçi on 1 February 1979 and was imprisoned. He escaped from prison and travelled illegally to Vatican City on 13 May 1981 to assassinate ...
Assassination attempt of the U.S. President Andrew Jackson outside the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., 30 January 1835. Assassination attempt of King of Spain Alfonso XIII in Madrid, 31 May 1906. Assassination attempt of Russian Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in Moscow, Aug 30 1918.
Vatican conspiracy theories. St. Peter's Basilica. Vatican conspiracy theories are conspiracy theories that concern the Pope or the Roman Catholic Church. A majority of the theories allege that the Church and its representatives are secretly controlling secular society with a satanic agenda for global domination.