Pope draws big crowd after cancellation
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Tens of thousands of people packed Pope Benedict XVI's traditional noontime blessing Sunday in a show support after the Vatican canceled his visit to a university because of some protests by students and faculty.
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Pope Benedict made a triumphant  return on Saturday to Munich, where he served as archbishop for  five years, and told the cheering crowds he was deeply moved to  come back to his Bavarian homeland.
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Pope John Paul II has celebrated midnight mass at St Peter's Basilica in Rome before a packed congregation.
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LORETO, Italy  - Pope John Paul prayed for the  victims of the "inhumane violence" of Russia's Beslan school  tragedy as he said Mass on Sunday before 200,000 people in  central Italy.
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MUNICH, Germany  - Pope Benedict, continuing a   nostalgic visit to the German city where he served as   archbishop, on Sunday celebrates an outdoor mass expected to   draw hundreds of thousands of people.
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Nun shot dead in Somalia Italy on security alert Apology offends Jews John Hooper in Rome Monday September 18, 2006 The Guardian The Pope addressing the crowd that gathered for prayers at Castel Gandolfo.
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ANKARA, Turkey, Nov. 26 -- Thousands of chanting, flag-waving protesters on Sunday denounced Pope Benedict XVI as anti-Islamic, demanding that he cancel a trip to Turkey this week that the Vatican hopes will help mend relations between the pontiff and Muslims.
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Pope John Paul II greeted the faithful Sunday from his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square, returning to the world's most famous pulpit for the first time since a health crisis led to his emergency hospitalization.
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Pope Benedict held an open  air mass on Tuesday in the town where he had hoped to spend his  retirement and rejected the use of God's name to justify hatred  and fanaticism.
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MUNICH, 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.
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Pope Benedict XVI has canceled a speech at the prestigious La Sapienza University in Rome amid opposition by professors and students who say he is hostile to science.
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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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Pressure mounted on Pope Benedict   to issue a personal apology on Sunday when he makes his first   public appearance since his comments about Islam sparked Muslim   fury across the world.
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Tens of thousands flocked to a religious  rally in the Philippine capital's main park on Sunday in a show  of defiance against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and her  supporters in the lower house of Congress.
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Crowds have begun converging in central Istanbul for a demonstration called by a small Islamist party against the visit to Turkey by Pope Benedict XVI, which starts on Tuesday.
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Dozens of Muslims demonstrated inside a historic church against Pope Benedict XVI's planned visit here next week as an Islamist party called a large weekend rally to show the pontiff is &quot;unwelcome&quot; in the country.
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More than 20,000 Muslims in Istanbul  on Sunday held the biggest protest so far against Pope  Benedict's controversial visit to Turkey this week.