News Source: Sify News
| about 1 month ago
Pope Benedict XVI wrapped up a low-key pilgrimage to the fiercely secular Czech Republic on Monday, reaching out to nonbelievers and calling on an increasingly diverse Europe to embrace Christian teachings. Throughout the three-day visit, the crowds...
News Source: Seattle Times
| about 1 month ago
Czech Republic — Pope Benedict XVI on Monday held up the Czech Republic's martyred patron saint as a model for leaders, saying the world needs God-fearing people prepared to follow the ethical principles of Christianity...Benedict said that those...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| about 1 month ago
The 82-year-old pope visited the Saint Wenceslas Basilica in Stara Bolesav, just outside Prague. There he paid homage to the saint on the anniversary of his murder more than 1,000 years ago. Saint Wenceslas, who was duke of Bohemia until his death,...
News Source: CNN
| about 1 month ago
Pope Benedict XVI urged a crowd of 120,000 worshippers in one of Europe's most secular countries to remain faithful to religious tradition on Sunday. "History has demonstrated the absurdities to which man descends when he excludes God from the...
News Source: Hindustan times
| about 1 month ago
Pope Benedict XVI recalled the evils of the communist era Saturday as he began a three-day pilgrimage to the Czech Republic, and he urged the fiercely secular nation to rediscover its Christian roots. At a welcome ceremony at Prague's Ruzyne...
News Source: Sify News
| about 1 month ago
Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday that all of Europe — and not only this ex-communist country — must acknowledge its Christian heritage as it copes with rising immigration from other cultures and religions. The second day of Benedict's pilgrimage to...