Solitary pope enters Auschwitz death camp
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German-born Pope Benedict XVI walked alone under the infamous &amp;quot;Arbeit Macht Frei&amp;quot; gate at the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau as he began a poignant visit to the site where Hitler&#039;s Germany killed 1.1 million people in World War II.
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Pope John Paul II put the last Austro-Hungarian emperor on the road to sainthood on Sunday in a solemn beatification ceremony in St.
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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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Auschwitz: Some of the last remaining survivors of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in southern Poland will gather here on Thursday, alongside world leaders and soldiers from the Soviet Red Army, for a solemn ...
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Czech-born Yehuda Bacon was just 14 when he arrived at Auschwitz in 1943. In 1945, days before the Soviets liberated the camp he was sent on a so-called "death march".
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw will visit the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in Poland to mark the 60th anniversary of its liberation during World War II.
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Pope Benedict XVI leads Mass for almost one million Poles before a symbolic visit to the Nazi death camp, Auschwitz.
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On Jan. 27, 1945, Yakov Vinnichenko walked through the gates of Auschwitz into a netherworld of ghostly, emaciated women huddled together in dark barracks to prop one another up. "Some tried to kiss us, but it was uncomfortable &#151; you didn't want to get infected," the one-time Soviet infantryman recalls.
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An Arizona man who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp finds he lived next door to an SS camp guard.
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LORETO, Italy - A frail Pope John Paul II put three more Roman Catholics on the road to sainthood during a visit to a hilltop shrine Sunday, struggling at times but cheered on by 200,000 pilgrims.    He seemed drained, seated in a wheeled throne in glittering green vestments, at the end of the three-hour ceremony in 86 degree heat...
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A man tried to jump into Pope Benedict XVI's uncovered popemobile as the pontiff began his general audience Wednesday in St. Peter's Square and was wrestled to the ground by security officers.
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Pope John Paul II was strong enough to turn the pages of written greetings Saturday and speak in a clear voice, a visitor said. But, still hospitalized and recovering from the flu, the pontiff sent an emissary to read a speech in his name at the Vatican.
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Auschwitz survivor Arno Lustiger brought  the German parliament to its feet on Thursday with a vivid  speech describing his trip through "hell" in the waning weeks  of World War II and his emotional rescue by U.S. troops.
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LODZ, PolandâSam Weinreich remembers the last time he came to Radegast train station in Poland&#39;s second-largest city - the day in 1944 he was forced into a cattle car and sent to Nazi Germany&#39;s Auschwitz death camp.
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LOURDES, France - A frail Pope John Paul II celebrated an open-air Mass on Sunday as several hundred thousand pilgrims, many in wheelchairs, crowded onto a field near a French shrine to the Virgin Mary that is associated with miraculous cures of the sick.    The Mass was a highlight of the Pope's two-day visit to Lourdes, a town in the Pyrenees where Roman Catholic tradition says St...
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Pope Benedict XVI becomes the first pontiff to visit a holy icon believed to carry an imprint of Christ's face.
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VATICAN CITY, JAN. 9, 2005 ( Zenit.org ).- John Paul II named Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger of Paris as his special envoy to the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau ...