Pope Benedict XVI is now in Berlin

The Pope has arrived in Berlin. He was welcomed by Germany's president Christian Wulff and by Chancellor Angela Merkel.

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[Ohyewildthong]

Pray, O'Holy Mother Maria, that Our Holy Father my have a fruitful visit.

[LatinPrayers]

That is almost how to greet a pope.... One thing missing... The president forgot to kiss His Holinessess hand.!

[MultiCjcc]

El Padrino comes to Berlin.

[LucaTurilli89]

@Ohyewildthong well African countries don't know how they can get AIDS from other people and stuff.Lybia was a good example with around 50 kids in a hospital getting AIDS pretty fast around 2001 year. Africa is poor and uneducated. ;)

[Ohyewildthong]

@LucaTurilli89 Evidence? 

[LucaTurilli89]

@Ohyewildthong thanks for thge information but still it could be mostly an uninformative problem. Many people doesn't know the usual stuff about AIDS and HIV.

[Ohyewildthong]

@LucaTurilli89 Why do millions of Africans die every year from AIDS? We've already answered this, because of what Green calls "risk compensation". Look at these figures, By 2007 Burundi, with a 62 per cent Catholic population, had only a 2 per cent Aids infection rate. Angola, 38 per cent Catholic, had a 2.1 per cent rate. In contrast, Swaziland, only 20 per cent Catholic, had a 26.1 per cent infection rate and Botswana, just 5 per cent Catholic, had a 23.9 per cent rate.

[LucaTurilli89]

@Ohyewildthong and why millions of africans die every year from AIDS?! The European countries use contraceptives and don't have high AIDS ratio. It is evidence.

[Ohyewildthong]

@LucaTurilli89 So you've totally avoided my entire argument and just made wild assertions without backing them up with any evidence. Look at the science kiddo, the African countries which are Catholic (and there are some) have the lowest HIV rates; they reject contraception. The countires which embrace contraception, whom the West floods with contraceptions, have the highest HIV rates. And I am using independent research, Green's an atheist. You're not using any evidence.

[LucaTurilli89]

@Ohyewildthong without contraceptions you need to have sex only with your wife/husband and nobody else. This is riskier than having sex with condoms. Some people are stupid and drunk and they could skip condoms but that doesn't change the fact not all are. And again if you are such being catholic won't help you. The people in Africa are not cathlic at all so the Vatican and the Pope shouldn't even have the opinion in this case. There should be total independent research on preventing HIV there!

[Ohyewildthong]

@LucaTurilli89 Because, again to quote Dr Green (please look him up) it encourages more risky sexual behaviour which cancels any benefits they give. And no, the Vatican didn't, some Bishops did, but not the Vatican.

[LucaTurilli89]

@Ohyewildthong wtf?! How is contraception bringing AIDS to people exactly? The Vatican keeps a secret the claims of child sexual abuses made by priests. Check Bullshit Season 7 Episode 10 The Vatican.