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Source: BBC World Service "Europe Today"

Roundup

8-17-05

Brother Roger dies

The 90-year-old founder of the French-based Taizé Christian ecumenical community has been stabbed to death at a prayer service. Brother John, a member of Taizé in France, explains what happened.

Read entire article at BBC World Service "Europe Today"