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John XII (955–964), allegedly murdered by the jealous husband of the woman with whom he was in bed [14] Benedict VI (973–974), strangled [ 15 ] John XIV (983–984), died either by starvation, ill-treatment, or direct murder [ 16 ]
He has said he had not hurt the pope. After spending three years in a Lisbon prison, Fernández y Krohn was released in 1985, and deported. [10] As a member of the Roman Catholic Church, the perpetrator, according to Canons 1331 and 1370 § 1 of the Church code, incurred the Church penalty of excommunication.
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. Ağca was apprehended immediately and later sentenced to life in prison by an Italian court. The Pope forgave Ağca for the assassination ...
When John F Kennedy became the fourth sitting US president to be assassinated, at the hands of a gunman, in Texas 60 years ago, the country was left stunned and heartbroken.
For example, in his "Saigon and Chicago" chapter, he "cinematically" cuts between two concurrent sequences of events leading up to and culminating on the weekend of November 2, 1963: (1) the coup in Saigon that killed South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm and his brother Ngô Đình Nhu, and (2) a Chicago-based assassination plot ...
A new Gallup poll shows that 65 percent of Americans now believe JFK was killed on November 22, 1963 as the result of an assassination conspiracy, rejecting the official "Lone Gunman" theory that ...
Running to become the first Catholic president of the United States in 1960, Sen. John F. Kennedy told an audience of wary Protestant ministers that “if the time should come … when my office ...
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 approximately 4,000 passengers and shutting down air travel around the world; and crash a plane into the headquarters of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, Virginia. [1] [2]