Pope Benedict XVI has wrapped up the second day of his current trip to France with a plea not to forget the victims of violence, hatred and poverty.
The Pontiff was speaking following a procession through Lourdes in the south of the country. The 81-year-old Pope was in Lourdes on a pilgrimage to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the apparition of the Virgin Mary to a 14-year-old peasant girl. Earlier in the day Benedict held an open air Imprisoned goats freed from DR Congo prison by baffled minister ...
Czechoslovakia's beginnings in France remembered ... mass in Paris, which was attended by more than 200,000 worshippers.
(Deutsche Welle)
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