Around 120,000 worshippers turned out at an airfield in the Czech Republic on Sunday (September 27) for mass led by the Pope.
Many in the crowd at the event in Brno came from neighbouring countries including Poland, Slovakia and Hungary.
But Pope Benedict XVI is hoping to draw more of the Czech Republic's three million Catholics - about a third of the population - back to the church.
Centuries of religious wars and decades of brutal communist repression have made it one of the world' Read more

Around 120,000 worshippers turned out at an airfield in the Czech Republic on Sunday (September 27) for mass led by the Pope.
Many in the crowd at the event in Brno came from neighbouring countries including Poland, Slovakia and Hungary.
But Pope Benedict XVI is hoping to draw more of the Czech Republic's three million Catholics - about a third of the population - back to the church.
Centuries of religious wars and decades of brutal communist repression have made it one of the world's most secular countries.
The crowd heard the Pope urge people to God in their lives.
"History has demonstrated the absurdities to which man descends when he excludes God from the horizon of his choices and actions, and how hard it is to build a society inspired by the values of goodness, justice and fraternity, because the human being is free and his freedom remains fragile," he said.
The three-day visit is his first trip to the central European country in 12 years and precedes the 20th anniversary in November of the 'Velvet Revolution' that ended decades of totalitarian rule that suppressed religious activity. During this time the government closed monasteries and jailed many priests and believers.
Unlike in neighbouring Poland, most leaders of the Czechoslovak state that emerged from the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire in 1918 were avowedly secular, or more in tune with the reformist tradition of the medieval priest Jan Hus -- a heretic for the Catholic Church.
Harmila Horavova, who lives near Brno, said the Pope brought hope to all people.
Hoakim Mustus, who travelled from Chile, described it as a very special day, especially as he'd managed to bring his children with him.
The Pope is due to celebrate another mass on Monday in Stara Boleslav, north of Prague, where the Czech patron saint, Wenceslas, was murdered in the 10th century. Close