Continuing his visit to France, Pope Benedict XVI has been leading an open-air mass in Paris, attended by 200,000 followers.
Later this Saturday, the Pontiff makes a pilgrimage to Lourdes in southern France. The Pope was welcomed to Paris on Friday by President Nicolas Sarkozy and held brief talks with French Jewish leaders and leaders of France's five-million strong Muslim community. France is home to 35 million baptised Roman Catholics, but only about 10 percent attend mass Pope Benedict XVI arrives for first papal visit to France ...
France passes constitutional reforms ...
France passes constitiutional reforms ...
Catholic youth reach critical mass at racecourse ... regularly. In a keynote speech, Benedict warned that humanity faces "disaster" if it turns away from religion. For several centuries France has upheld a strict separation of church and state.
(Deutsche Welle)
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