PAPAL BLESSING (AFP) Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithful from the window of his papal summer retreat in Castel Gandolfo. The Pope prepared for his visit to Sydney, Australia, where thousands of pilgrims converged for the start of the World Youth Day festival, the biggest event in Australia since the 2000 Olympics.
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SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) — Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Sydney on Sunday for the Catholic Church’s World Youth Day — five days of peace, love, and Christianity.
Thousands of young Catholics, nuns, and priests from around the world have been converging on Sydney, which is treating the July 15-20 event as bigger than the Sydney 2000 Olympics. Groups of pilgrims, some wearing backpacks with pictures of Jesus, explored the Australian city.
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Northern and central Luzon will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms. The rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers and thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or evening.
