Austria prepares to welcome Pope
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Pope Benedict is due to visit Austria, where he will join Jewish leaders to pay tribute to victims of the Nazis.
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Pope Benedict XVI is due to arrive in Munich for a second "more personal" visit to his homeland, Bavaria.
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Turkey greets Pope Benedict on Tuesday for a four-day official visit, but the welcome will be distinctly cool due to simmering Muslim anger over his comments on Islam and his past opposition to Ankara's EU ambitions.
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Greeted by a thunderous chorus of church bells, Pope Benedict XVI began a pilgrimage to his native Bavaria on Saturday, a six-day visit laden with meaning for him and the future of his increasingly liberal Roman Catholic flock in Germany.
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VATICANO - Papa Benedetto XVI in Austria - ÂDurante i prossimi tre giorni, desidero compiere qui in Austria il mio pellegrinaggio verso MariazellÂ come un essere in cammino insieme ai pellegrini del nostro tempoÂ Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - ÂIl motivo della mia venuta in Austria Ã¨ lÂ850o anniversario del luogo sacro di Mariazell. Tale Santuario della Madonna rappresenta in certo qual modo il cuore materno dellÂAustria e possiede da sempre una particolare importa...
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VATICANO - Papa Benedetto XVI in Austria - ÂIn un monastero di impostazione benedettina, le lodi di Dio, che i monaci celebrano come solenne preghiera corale, hanno sempre la prioritÃ Â Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - Il Santo Padre Benedetto XVI, nel pomeriggio di domenica 9 settembre, si Ã¨ recato in visita allÂAbbazia di Heiligenkreuz, fondata nel 1135 da Leopoldo III, che Ã¨ il monastero cistercense piÃ¹ grande in Europa. Dopo un momento ...
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Pope Benedict XVI, an admittedly reluctant traveler, begins a six-day homecoming pilgrimage to southern Germany on Saturday, retracing his roots in Bavaria.
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Outgoing PM will travel to the Vatican to meet the Pope in preparation for his conversion.
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Pope Benedict XVI begins a three-day pilgrimage to Austria on Friday with a solemn tribute to Jewish Holocaust victims, and an appeal to diplomats serving with the U.N. nuclear agency and other international organizations.Ahead of his visit, Benedict's seventh foreign trip in two years as pope, the German-born pontiff spoke of his affection for Austria, a mostly Catholic country 'which has been near to me since my childhood.'But the pope, who visited and vacationed here often as a cardinal, faced a challenge: Many Austrian believers, disgusted by clergy sex scandals and deeply resentful of a government-imposed church tax, have grown cold _ and tens of thousands have left the church altogether. Read more
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BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro  - Serbia-Montenegro's president said Wednesday he is preparing an invitation for Pope John Paul to visit the Balkan country.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury is due in Rome for his first official meeting with Pope Benedict XVI.
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Some Catholic Church activists in Austria accused Pope Benedict of devoting too little time to hear ordinary churchgoers' concerns during a visit starting on Friday and said he was risking losing more of his flock.
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Church bells pealed across Munich as Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday began a six-day homecoming to his native Bavaria in the city where he served as priest and archbishop more than a quarter-century ago.
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Pope Benedict will make a six-day  pastoral visit to the state of Bavaria in his German homeland  in September, the Vatican said on Wednesday.
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By Jens HackMUNICH, Germany - Pope Benedict hopes his homecoming this weekend to the Catholic heartland of Bavaria will revive faith in Germany as more than half a million pilgrims prepare to welcome him.The ...
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Benedict XVIÂs visit to his home turf in Germany will be in some ways a survey of the remnant that is the European church.
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Security is tightened in Rome ahead of Pope Benedict XVI's first appearance since making comments angering Muslims.