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Last Updated: Friday, 7 September 2007, 06:49 GMT 07:49 UK

“Austria prepares to welcome Pope”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Pope Benedict XVI is due to arrive in Austria for a three-day visit, where he will join Jewish leaders to pay tribute to victims of the Nazi Holocaust.
The pontiff, brought up in the German province of Bavaria, will also visit a Catholic shrine to the Virgin Mary.

The Vatican says the Catholic leader will travel as a pilgrim, although correspondents say his trip will have more of the trappings of a state visit.

It is the Pope’s seventh foreign trip in the past two years.

It comes after a week of high-profile meetings with leaders including Israeli President Shimon Peres and Syrian Vice President Faruq al-Shara.

Deep roots

The pontiff is due to join Vienna’s chief rabbi in silent tribute at a memorial to the 65,000 Viennese Jews who perished in Nazi death camps, and others who died in earlier purges.”