Applauds Welcome Pope in Poland

World | May 25, 2006, Thursday // 00:00

Pope Benedict XVI has been greeted by cheering crowds at the start of a visit to Poland - the land of his immediate predecessor John Paul II. There was choral singing and applause to mark his arrival, while the streets of Warsaw were festooned with the flags of Poland and the Vatican. Speaking in Polish, the German-born Pope said he had "come to follow in the footsteps" of John Paul II. On Sunday he will visit the Nazi German extermination camp at Auschwitz.

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