Pope Benedict XVI is greeted by the crowd during his
visit to the Regina Pacis center in Amman, Jordan, May 8. The center is
operated by three Comboni Missionary Sisters and a team of teachers, therapists
and volunteers who educate and care for Muslims and Christians with disabilities.
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ABOVE: Pope Benedict XVI wears a shmagh, a Jordanian head scarf
presented to him at the Regina Pacis center in Amman, Jordan, May
8. The center was the first stop on the pope’s weeklong pastoral
visit to the Holy Land.
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LEFT: Pope Benedict XVI and Israel’s Presi-dent Shimon
Peres plant an olive tree, an ancient symbol of peace and prosperity,
in the garden of the presidential palace in Jerusalem, May 11.
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Pope Benedict XVI holds hands with Rabbi David Rosen,
left, and Sheik Muafek Tarif, the Druze spiritual leader in Israel, during
a meeting with religious leaders at the Basilica of the Annunciation in
Nazareth, May 14. A specially composed song of peace was sung as the leaders
held hands.
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Pope Benedict XVI stands in front of the Dome of the Rock, on the
compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple
Mount, in the Old City of Jerusalem, May 12. The pope removed his
shoes before entering the seventh-century shrine that protects an
exposed rock revered by Muslims as the place from which Mohammed ascended
to heaven.
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PRESS OFFICE/REUTERS
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Scouts carry banners as Pope Benedict XVI travels in his popemobile
past the controversial Israeli security barrier during a visit to
the Aida Refugee Camp in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, May 13.
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Pope Benedict XVI kneels in front of the Stone of
Unction, believed to be where the body of Jesus was prepared for burial,
in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the Old City of Jerusalem, May 15.
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