Pope Benedict XVI has arrived in the French shrine town of Lourdes for a pilgrimage that marks the second leg of his visit to France. The 81-year-old pontiff arrived by helicopter hours after leading an open-air mass in Paris attended by 250,000 people.
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Spain defeats Italy in penalty shoot-out ... only about 10 percent attend mass regularly. For several centuries France has upheld a strict separation of church and state.
(Deutsche Welle)
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