Pope making pilgrimage to Germany
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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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Pope Benedict XVI traveled to the city of Altoetting to hold Mass on Monday, as his sentimental homecoming to Bavaria drew well-wishers and Roman Catholics eager to hear his words.
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VIENNA - Pope Benedict XVI, beset by drab weather and relatively small crowds, ended a pilgrimage to Austria yesterday by reminding Europeans of their Christian heritage as they grapple with immigration and Islam. The German-born pontiff appealed to gatherings of believers in mostly Catholic Austria not to discard their faith. In a farewell speech, he urged Austrians "to bring the ...
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Pope Benedict sets off on Tuesday  on one of the most delicate trips by a Pontiff, visiting  Turkey, where resentment is seething over his comments on Islam  and opposition to Ankara's EU bid.
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Pope Benedict left on Tuesday for a delicate four-day trip to Turkey, saying his visit would be an opportunity for reconciliation and dialogue between Christians and Muslims.
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Pope Benedict XVI visits Wadowice, the Polish town where his predecessor John Paul II grew up.
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A huge crowd attended a mass  with Pope Benedict on Sunday as the Pontiff prepared to visit  the Auschwitz death camp to pray for peace as Catholic leader  and a &quot;son of Germany.&quot;
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Pope Benedict XVI is due to visit his birthplace, the town of Marktl-am-Inn, as part of his six-day trip to Bavaria.
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Pope John Paul flies to Italy's Adriatic coast on Sunday to create three new Blesseds of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday that his visit to Turkey is aimed at promoting dialogue and bridging differences, speaking minutes before departing for his first trip as pontiff to a predominantly Muslim country.
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Pope John Paul II is to make his first Sunday appearance at the Vatican after his recent hospital treatment.
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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 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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ITALY ROME -- The spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians arrived in the Italian capital last night, ahead of a Vatican ceremony for the return of two saints' relics that were taken to Rome centuries ago. Pope John Paul II will give the relics of Patriarchs John Chrysostom and Gregory Nazianzen to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I at a ceremony ...
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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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Outgoing PM will travel to the Vatican to meet the Pope in preparation for his conversion.
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Pope Benedict XVI led a ceremony from the steps of a church ahead of a procession in central Rome on Thursday, a day after a security scare in which a German man tried to jump on the pontiff's jeep in St. Peter's Square.